On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 16:56 +0000, Andrew Taylor wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Thanks for your help. I have this working but don't completely > understand what I did. > > 1. Here is how the .pgpass file was originally written by pgadmin: > > 127.0.0.1:5432:*:postgres:Password > :5432:*:django_dev:Password > > 2. This is the amended version which allows pgadmin to automatically > connect to the server. All I have done is add line 3. All 3 lines seem > to be required to log on to the server. > > 127.0.0.1:5432:*:postgres:Password > :5432:*:django_dev:Password > localhost:5432:*:django_dev:Password > > > So questions: > What exactly is the difference between 127.0.0.1 and localhost?
localhost can be anything. On my computer, it is ::1 (the IPv6 equivalent to 127.0.0.1). > When there is no IP stated as in the second line what does that do? I've never tried that. I would guess it is the default unix domain socket. > How come a localhost line wasn't created automatically by pgadmin? pgAdmin registers what you enter in the dialog. It doesn't "guess" things. -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support
