Re: postgresql TCP problem

[bob parker <bob_parker@dodo.com.au>]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:43, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote:
> I need to connect to postgresql through TCP socket but there is a problrm
> with authontication  when I am trying "psql  aDatabase someUser" it says
> that IDENT authontication failed. but if I change user to that user and try
> "psql aDatabase" it can connect to it!
> Any suggestion?

I'm not really expert enough to answer directly but AFAIK the psql connection 
is via a unix socket not tcp/ip.
There is a admin section of the manual on www.postrgresql.org, if you can't 
make sense of that there is an admin mailing list on the same site.

HTH
Bob Parker