From: "Joe Shevland" <shevlandj@kpi.com.au>
To: "Don Oliver" <dayo_nanaimo@hotmail.com>, <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: RE: [INTERFACES] Pgaccess - Error trying to connect
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:35:20 -0800
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Do a:

netstat -an

and check if anything is listening on port 5432.

Also, try looking at your ODBC data source definition
and check the hostname/IP address setting.

Once you've verified this, try pinging that hostname
or IP address from your DOS-prompt to see if its
reachable via TCP/IP.

HTH,
Joe


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
[mailto:owner-pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org]On Behalf Of Don Oliver
Sent: Wednesday, 1 March 2000 4:20 PM
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Pgaccess - Error trying to connect


>Ed Loehr wrote>
>May I suggest you search deja.com for your error message?

been there, done that :-)

>If that fails, you might post your error message on the mailing list and
>see
>what people say.  Probably others struggled with the same and would
>benefit from a solution...
>

I thought that I did explain above, but I'll start over here. Maybe I wasn't
clear.
I'll list every step. Please excuse the length, but I'm going around in
circles here.

I am logged into linux as user "don".
I have PostgreSQL permissions to create databases.

I have a database named "don", and I have created and populated tables in
this database.
PostgreSQL is always on, and works fine from the command line. (A console in
X.)

If I try to start pgaccess with: "pgaccess don", the main PgAccess window
comes up,
(empty) but there is an error message box in front of it. The message is:

     "Error trying to connect to database "don" on host localhost.
      PostgreSQL error message: Connection to database failed:
      Network is unreachable. is the postmaster running (with -i) at
      'localhost' and accepting connections on TCP/IP port '5432'?"

In the PgAccess file there is a page called "Common Problems with PgAccess"
The first one is called "Connection Failure", which says:
"one of the most common initial problems is the message:"
(then repeats exactly the message that I just listed).

It goes on to say, "This usually occurs because the "postmaster" (the
postgreSQL backend)
was not started with the -i option. Usually just adding -i to the command
line that starts
the postmaster and restarting will fix this."

So I did:
$su
# /etc/rc.d/init.d.postgresql stop
(it stops)
# /etc/rc.d/init.d.postgresql start -i
$ pgaccess don

I still get the same error

It then goes on to say, "If you have installed the prewritten script to
start postgreSQL
automatically, this option is (currently) commented out:
     # PGOPTS="-i"
just remove the hash and space and comment out the "blank" option above.
      PGOPTS="".

This line did not exist in the startup script, so I added it. PGOPTS=-i

Still the same error.

I can not find any other clues, so I'm stuck, and hoping someone will have
another idea.

TIA,
Don

Sorry Ed, I meant to send this to the list, then realized that I was
replying to you. I'm re-sending it to the list. Don


Don Oliver
dayo_nanaimo@hotmail.com

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