Re: connection refused problem

If you don't want to modify the pg_ctl script (say you only want network
connections some of the time), you can put the -i on the command line,
preceded by a -o to tell pg_ctl to pass the option through to the
postmaster:

  pc_ctl -o -i start

Dan Weston


On Thu, 30 May 2002, Darren Ferguson wrote:

> Modify the pg_ctl script and it should run the postmaster.
> What you do is add the -i flag there. Alternatively you can add
> to pg_hba.conf file i think it is TCP = yes. I am not sure but you can
> check the documentation about that one but the -i flag on postmaster
> definately works
>
> HTH
>
> Darren Ferguson
>
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Phil Glatz wrote:
>
> > I bringing up PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on a Free BSD 4.5 system, installed from
> > ports, using defaults.  I copied the sample versions of pg_hba.conf and
> > postgresql.conf to new files, removing the .sample part.
> >
> > This command works fine:
> > psql -U pgsql database
> >
> > but if I specify a hostname:
> > psql -U pgsql -h localhost cn
> >
> > I get:
> >    psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
> >            Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'localhost'
> >            and accepting connections on TCP/IP port 5432?
> >
> >
> > I have local hosts defined in /etc/hosts, and in /tmp I see:
> > srwxrwxrwx   1 pgsql  wheel     0 May 30 10:15 .s.PGSQL.5432=
> > -rw-------   1 pgsql  wheel    28 May 30 10:15 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock
> >
> >
> > Sorry for such an obviously dumb question, I didn't see anything in the FAQ
> > other than "add the -i flag to postmaster", but I didn't see how to do
> > that.  The core line in my startup script is:
> >
> >    '[ -d ${PGDATA} ] && exec /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl start -s -w -l ~pgsql/errlog'
> >
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> >
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> >
>
>
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