Re: Postgres Port Problem (and other port issues)

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Chris Mayes wrote:
  >I've finally managed to connect.  It looks like psql is acting odd
  >(then again, maybe this is the default behavior... I am normally a
  >MySQL/Oracle user).  Basically, psql requires that I explicitly supply
  >a hostname.  So, even though psql complains about being refused on port
  >5432 on localhost, I can connect as the user postgres by using 'psql -h
  >localhost.'  
  >
  >I don't imagine that this is the default behavior since the regression
  >test fails because of the 'connection refused' error.  
  >
  >Any ideas on why this might be happening?
 
If you supply a hostname, it uses a TCP/IP connection; if you don't, it
uses a Unix socket.  I suspect your postgresql packages aren't all up
to date (see my previous mail about location of the Unix socket).

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