Re: postgres perl DBI

"Fetter, David M" wrote:

> I'm having issues with installing the postgres DBI for perl.  Here is the
> output of make test and a verification postmaster is running:
>
> [~/DBD-Pg-0.95] dmfetter@mwabs505! make test
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib
> -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
> test.pl
> OS: solaris
> Use of uninitialized value at test.pl line 53.
> DBI->data_sources .......... not ok:
> DBI->connect(dbname=template1) failed: PQconnectPoll() -- connect() failed:
> Connection refused
>         Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'mwabs504'
>         and accepting connections on TCP/IP port '5432'?
>  at test.pl line 59

Is the postmaster running? Do you run the make test routine with
a user who can access the database. Try the same with
the postgres user. I usually do only the make install step
as root.
Regards Herbie

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