I've already checked that. It is enabled. I am running Scientific Linux.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Susan Cassidy <susan.cass...@decisionsciencescorp.com> writes: > > $dbh = > DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=${dbserver};port=$dbport;", > > $dbuser, $dbpasswd) or > > errexit( "Unable to connect to dbname $dbname, err: $DBI::errstr"); > > > The exact same connection string works fine in a standalone perl program. > > Given the permissions errors you mentioned upthread, I'm wondering whether > you're running on Red Hat/CentOS, and if so whether SELinux is preventing > apache from connecting to unexpected port numbers. I seem to recall > that there's a SELinux boolean specifically intended to allow or disallow > database connections from webservers, but I couldn't tell you the name > offhand. > > regards, tom lane >