Re: Cannot connect to postgresql

On Tuesday 21 July 2009 10:35:46 Carol Walter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I emailed to the group last week about being able to access one of my
> postgres databases from other machines on my network. I thought the
> problem was a installation of 8.2.10 that I had been testing an
> upgrade on had clobbered some of the files that the system needed. I
> had been testing implementing enabling of ssl, so I thought that I had
> gotten a partial installation that was causing my password
> authentication failure. I did a package add on another machine of the
> same package that was used to load our original 8.2.3 with everything
> the same. I still can't connect. I think the pg_hba.conf file is
> fine. Where else should I be looking?
>
> Carol Walter
it sounds like either a network issue, or a pg_hba.conf issue.

If you send me the following, I'll have a look:

- pg_hba.conf file from the target machine (the one you're trying to connect
to)

- the i.p.'s/hostnames of both boxes

- the command you're using to try and connect