how does psql know where to go?

From: Michael Lush <mjlush(at)ebi(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: how does psql know where to go?
Date: 2009-11-06 15:07:10
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0911061438040.22719@pigeon.ebi.ac.uk
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I have two machines bonny and clide which share a NFS disk
(which contains the postgres binarys)

bonny is running a postgres database 'testdb' on a local disk
using the binarys on the NFS disk (/nfs/postgres/).

If I log into clide and run '/nfs/postgres/bin/psql testdb'

It connects to postgres on bonny and creates a terminal session.

How does it know where to connect and how do I stop it?

I want to run a backup database on clide and don't want any
confusion as to which database I'm working on!.

I've stripped out all references to postgres in the enviroment
and I set listen_addresses = 'localhost' on the database on bonny
which I would assume would prevent external connections.

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Michael
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