Re: [GENERAL] postmaster does not start up

Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote:
  >Greetings - this is with a newly-compiled 7.0.3 under debian 2.2 on a
...
  >postgres@nujoma:~$ psql
  >Connection to database 'template1' failed.
  >connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
  >Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix
  >socket '5432'?

If you have package libpgsql2 installed, get rid of it; or compile from the
Debian source.  Because of conflict with other packages, the location of the
Unix socket is now different in Debian.

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