"Bhavana.Rakesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's what happens when I specify the port number
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ psql -U brakesh -p 5000 -h 127.0.0.1 -d testing123 > psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused > Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting > TCP/IP connections on port 5000? 5000 being a nonstandard port number, it's certainly possible that the kernel is filtering this connection attempt. "Connection refused" might mean either that there's no process listening to TCP port 5000, or that the kernel rejected the connection before looking for a listening process. In any case it seems highly probable that you do have two postmasters running on this machine, one at port 5000 and one at port 5432. The psql calls without an explicit -p switch would have defaulted to port 5432 unless you've done something strange to your installation. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster