Tom,
False alarm -- I just realized that I was picking up the createdb from an earlier failed attempt to install 7.4.5. Removing that got me to the right command and all is well.
Thanks for the help.
Steve
Tom Lane wrote:
Steve Gollery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I installed Postgres 8 beta 3 on an XP box, with Postgres running as a service. TaskManager tells me that postgres and postmaster are both running. Using pgAdmin III, I can connect to the server and create users, databases, tables, etc.
But at the command line, on the same machine where the service is running, executing
createdb mydb
gives this:
could not connect to database template1: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
Steve: try createdb -h localhost mydb
Pghackers: I'm surprised that we don't have libpq set to default to "localhost" rather than a Unix socket on platforms that haven't got Unix sockets. A default that's guaranteed not to work seems a bit useless.
Anyone have a better idea than "localhost"?
regards, tom lane
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