Re: dblink not working in FC5 (Solved)

I was able to solve this issue by disabling SELinux.

Still, there has got to be a way to use dblink with SELinux.

Thanks

Manish

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>From: "Manish Gupta" <ml_gupta(at)hotmail(dot)com>
>To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
>Subject: [ADMIN] dblink not working in FC5
>Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:26:48 -0400
>
>Recently, I upgraded one of my server from FC4 to FC5. This also upgraded
>postgresql to 8.1.3. The upgrade was flawless. Unfortunately, I cannot get
>dblink to work in this version of postgresql. I created two fresh databases
>and tried... still no luck. I keep getting the following error:
>
>bulbulbo=# select dblink_connect('hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=bulbulfo
>user=bulbul password=password');
>ERROR: could not establish connection
>DETAIL: could not connect to server: Permission denied
> Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting
> TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
>
>bulbulbo=# select dblink_connect('dbname=bulbulfo user=bulbul');
>ERROR: could not establish connection
>DETAIL: could not connect to server: Permission denied
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
>
>My pg_hba.conf is as follows:
>----------------------
>local all all trust
># IPv4 local connections:
>host all all 127.0.0.1/32 password
>host all all 192.168.0.0/24 password
>host all all 10.1.2.0/24 password
>
># IPv6 local connections:
>host all all ::1/128 sameuser
>--------------------
>
>
>The error seems to be client authentication error. I researched and found
>that the message "could not establish connection" seems to coming from
>dblink.c (inside contrib/dblink), and it gets triggred when it is unable to
>create connection to the database. I though that this may be happening
>because libpq is not working properly. So, I compiled a simple program,
>written in C, that uses libpq and that program works fine.
>
>I have kind of hit the roadblock. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Manish
>
>"An informed citizenry is the bulwark of a democracy"
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>
>
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