On Thursday 20 April 2006 13:47, Mauricio Vergara Ereche wrote: > El Jueves, 20 de Abril de 2006 15:39, Gordon Messmer escribió: > [...] > > > So... is postmaster listening on the TCP port? It would need to be, if > > you're specifying 'hostaddr'. > > > > Use 'netstat -tlnp' to see if port 5432 is open. If not, you'll need to > > configure Postgres to listen on a TCP socket. You can either specify > > "PGOPTS=-i" in /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/postgresql, or "tcpip_socket = true" > > in /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf > > That last option gives me in /var/lib/pgsql/pgstartup.log this message > > FATAL: unrecognized configuration parameter "tcpip_socket" > > It's misspelled or something? > > -- > Mauricio Vergara Ereche User #188365 counter.li.org > NIC Chile mave [@] nic [.] cl > Agustinas 1357 Piso 4, Santiago CHILE +56 2 9407721 > Codigo Postal: 834-0432 http://www.nic.cl In postgres version 8: "server configuration parameters virtual_host and tcpip_socket have been replaced with a more general parameter listen_addresses. Also, the server now listens on localhost by default, which eliminates the need for the -i postmaster switch in many scenarios." http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/release-8-0.html