Re: connectivity problem

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tena Sakai <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: connectivity problem
Date: 2009-04-10 19:42:04
Message-ID: dcc563d10904101242u5b4fe94sf9a8eb443745bb9d@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I am having difficulty connecting to postgres service from
> a remote machine on the network.
>
> My postgres (8.3.6, on Linux) is running on a machine
> (vixen) and I would like to connect to it from another host.
>
> The host (named blitzen, runs linux as well) appears in
> pg_hba.conf of vixen as:
>   host     canon   all     172.16.1.106/32 md5     # blitzen
>
> and when I issue "psql canon" from blitzen, it complains as:
>   psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>         Is the server running locally and accepting
>         connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

You need to adjust the listen_address setting in postgresql.conf.

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