Re: Is Postgres broken in Red Hat 9?

Tnx everybody for help, it wasn't any problem with blocked ports, but in
ODBC driver.

This is from the Postgres Site:

"In addition, this driver fixes an annoying problem with recent builds
of PostgreSQL on Redhat systems that have a particularly long compiler
version string that caused a buffer overflow resulting in a GPF on
Windows upon connection to the database. "


Dragan Matic wrote:

> Hi, there is a small problem here I have, I would appreciate any
> suggestion.
>
>   We were using Postgres 7.2.x  and later 7.3.x under Red Hat 8, and
> everything worked fine. Clients are working under windows and are
> communicating to Postgres via ODBC.  This weekend we tried to upgrade
> to Red Hat 9 (and PG 7.3.3 shipped with it), but we just couldn't
> connect to server through ODBC. Postgres starts fine, I can access it
> through psql, but we simply can't access it from client machines. It
> is configured properly (it should accept tcp/ip connections, and
> appropriate rights are given). I simply can't find what is going
> wrong. I even trien putting older (Postgres made) rpms, but the
> problem persists. Are there any similar experiences, is this a RedHat
> bug, has it closed something somehow, or where should I start looking?
> Tnx.
> Dragan
>