Chris Mayes wrote: >I've finally managed to connect. It looks like psql is acting odd >(then again, maybe this is the default behavior... I am normally a >MySQL/Oracle user). Basically, psql requires that I explicitly supply >a hostname. So, even though psql complains about being refused on port >5432 on localhost, I can connect as the user postgres by using 'psql -h >localhost.' > >I don't imagine that this is the default behavior since the regression >test fails because of the 'connection refused' error. > >Any ideas on why this might be happening? If you supply a hostname, it uses a TCP/IP connection; if you don't, it uses a Unix socket. I suspect your postgresql packages aren't all up to date (see my previous mail about location of the Unix socket).
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