From: Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr>
To: pgsql-interfaces@hub.org
Subject: Re: Opening database with PGACCESS
Date: 02 Aug 1999 10:44:14 +0200
Message-ID: <wzid7x67esh.fsf@mail.dotcom.fr> (raw)
References: <199908020431.FAA05810@linda.lfix.co.uk>
>>>>> "oe" == Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
rod> "Error connecting database. Connection to database failed
rod> connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting
rod> TCP/IP (with -i) connections at 'localhost' on port '5432'"
rod>
rod> The postmaster is running and I can connect to mydb using "psql":
oe> pgaccess uses a TCP/IP connection through localhost, so you have
oe> to use the -i option when starting the postmaster, even though
oe> you have no other machines connecting to it.
well, there's a trick to get around that. If you provide an empty host
name and port number in the pgaccess connection dialog, it will switch
to a unix socket connection, and will work even without `-i'.
Has worked for me in the past, anyway.
--
Eric Marsden
It's elephants all the way down
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