Re: Opening database with PGACCESS

>>>>> "oe" == Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
 rod> "Error connecting database. Connection to database failed rod> connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and
acceptingrod> TCP/IP (with -i) connections at 'localhost' on port '5432'" rod>  rod> The postmaster is running and I
canconnect to mydb using "psql":
 
 oe> pgaccess uses a TCP/IP connection through localhost, so you have oe> to use the -i option when starting the
postmaster,even though oe> you have no other machines connecting to it.
 

well, there's a trick to get around that. If you provide an empty host
name and port number in the pgaccess connection dialog, it will switch
to a unix socket connection, and will work even without `-i'.

Has worked for me in the past, anyway.  

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Eric Marsden
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