Re: connect() failed: No such file or directory

Christian,

On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:17:06AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Christian Thrum writes:
>
> > $ ./createdb testdb
> > psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
> >         Is the postmaster running at 'localhost'
> >         and accepting connections on Unix socket '5432'?
> > createdb: database creation failed
>
> Quoth the FAQ_NT:
>
> : NOTE:
> : By default, PostgreSQL clients like psql communicate using unix domain
> : sockets, which don't work on NT.  Start the postmaster with -i, and
> : when connecting to the database from a client, set the PGHOST
> : environment variable to 'localhost' or supply the hostname on the
> : command line.

The above is true for 7.0 but not for 7.1beta5.  For reasons like the
above and others, I would suggest using 7.1beta5 or CVS.

Jason

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