Re: connection refused problem

There is no right way they both work. Also in my mail i did say you could
edit the conf file adding support i had just forgot the actual syntax and
offered a lookup of the documentation to find the correct syntax.

Both -i and tcpip_socket = true will achieve the same result. TCP/IP
connections to the database

Darren Ferguson

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> HOLD ON guys! The right way is to edit $PGDATA/postgresql.conf and
> change the line that says:
>
> tcpip_socket = false
>
> so that is says:
>
> tcpip_socket = true
>
> And restart the postmaster with
>
> pg_ctl restart
>
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Dan Weston wrote:
>
> > If you don't want to modify the pg_ctl script (say you only want network
> > connections some of the time), you can put the -i on the command line,
> > preceded by a -o to tell pg_ctl to pass the option through to the
> > postmaster:
> >
> > pc_ctl -o -i start
> >
> > Dan Weston
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Darren Ferguson wrote:
> >
> > > Modify the pg_ctl script and it should run the postmaster.
> > > What you do is add the -i flag there. Alternatively you can add
> > > to pg_hba.conf file i think it is TCP = yes. I am not sure but you can
> > > check the documentation about that one but the -i flag on postmaster
> > > definately works
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > Darren Ferguson
> > >
> > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Phil Glatz wrote:
> > >
> > > > I bringing up PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on a Free BSD 4.5 system, installed from
> > > > ports, using defaults. I copied the sample versions of pg_hba.conf and
> > > > postgresql.conf to new files, removing the .sample part.
> > > >
> > > > This command works fine:
> > > > psql -U pgsql database
> > > >
> > > > but if I specify a hostname:
> > > > psql -U pgsql -h localhost cn
> > > >
> > > > I get:
> > > > psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
> > > > Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'localhost'
> > > > and accepting connections on TCP/IP port 5432?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have local hosts defined in /etc/hosts, and in /tmp I see:
> > > > srwxrwxrwx 1 pgsql wheel 0 May 30 10:15 .s.PGSQL.5432=
> > > > -rw------- 1 pgsql wheel 28 May 30 10:15 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for such an obviously dumb question, I didn't see anything in the FAQ
> > > > other than "add the -i flag to postmaster", but I didn't see how to do
> > > > that. The core line in my startup script is:
> > > >
> > > > '[ -d ${PGDATA} ] && exec /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl start -s -w -l ~pgsql/errlog'
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