You should be able to telnet to the port and get a response back as in the exmple below.
Of course substitude the ip for the database. [postg...@pgprd01 londiste]$ telnet 127.0.0.1 5432 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. > Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:13:34 -0800 > From: adrian.kla...@gmail.com > To: christ...@ingenioussoftware.com > CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Connect to Postgres problems > > On 02/01/2010 09:10 AM, Christine Penner wrote: > > I have re started the computer (a few times) since I did all that. > > > > Christine > > > > > > What is the error that you are seeing on the client and in the logs? > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@gmail.com > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general _________________________________________________________________ Introducing Windows® phone. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9708122