Re: connection refused problem

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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