Re: [HACKERS] Can't run current PostgreSQL

On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> I am trying to run the latest version (supping source daily) and I get the
> following error when I run psql.
> 
> Connection to database 'darcy' failed.
> connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting connections at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'?
> 
> Have I missed some change that I have to make?  This is on the same
> system as the server.

	New default startup disabled TCP/IP connections, using Unix Domain Sockets
exclusively.  If PGHOST/PGPORT are set, then the "frontends" try to use TCP/IP
vs Unix Domain, and will therefore fail.  To get the old behaviour, startup
postmaster with the -i option to turn TCP/IP connections back on again...


Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org