Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > On 10/12/2007 11:41, manoj nair wrote: > >> The error message on the left most corner of PGAdmin >> says..."Connection to database ...Failed" and the >> add server form or dialog box pops up again. >> there is nothing much happening other than this. > > Yu should get a bit more than this....as an experiment, I stopped the > PostgreSQL service on my laptop (WinXP) and tried to connect with > pgAdmin - and a large window popped up quoting the error from libpq > ("could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061) Is > the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting TCP/IP connections > on port 5432?") and giving all sorts of useful advice. > > Do you not see something like this?
Oh, I see how that can happen (the do not show this hint again' box has been checked). Under File -> Options -> Preferences, check the 'Reset guru hints' option, click OK, and then try connecting again. Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org