Re: [GENERAL] a question about postgresql server connection

2009-04-16 Thread Dongyan Song
Hi, Thank you for all suggestions, I fixed this problem by change the owner of /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock file. # chown postgres /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock and it is done. Best wishes, Dongyan Adrian Klaver wrote: > > On Thursday 16 April 2009 2:04:19 am SongDongyan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thank you

Re: [GENERAL] a question about postgresql server connection

2009-04-16 Thread SongDongyan
67E-521 > From: akla...@comcast.net > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] a question about postgresql server connection > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:46:04 -0700 > CC: yzhsk...@hotmail.com > > On Wednesday 15 April 2009 5:30:29 am SongDongyan wrote: > > Hi a

Re: [GENERAL] a question about postgresql server connection

2009-04-16 Thread Dongyan Song
Hi, Thank you for your suggestion, I set my listen_address = ' * ', and I want to connect to local server. After I modified listen_address from localhost to *, the error message left to one line: FATAL: coul

Re: [GENERAL] a question about postgresql server connection

2009-04-16 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday 16 April 2009 2:04:19 am SongDongyan wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for your suggestion, I set my listen_address = ' * ', and I want > to connect to local server. > > After I modified listen_address from localhost to *, the error message left > to one line: > ***

Re: [GENERAL] a question about postgresql server connection

2009-04-15 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver writes: > On Wednesday 15 April 2009 5:30:29 am SongDongyan wrote: >> FATAL: could not open lock file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": Permission >> denied > First are you trying to connect to a local server or a remote server? > Second what is listen_addresses in postgresql.conf set to?

Re: [GENERAL] a question about postgresql server connection

2009-04-15 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 5:30:29 am SongDongyan wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed postgresql and when I typed ./createdb mydb, it gave error > message: > *** >** createdb: could not