If you are using ## in the password, that might cause problems for the URL/URI parser since # is part of URL structure. Otherwise, it looks like postgres is not running.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:32 AM Maurice Waka <mauricew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > db = DAL( "postgres://mauricewaka:b123test##@localhost:5432/mydb") > But got this error: ... > RuntimeError: Failure to connect, tried 5 times: ... > Is the server running on host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting > TCP/IP connections on port 5432? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/CAEVys%2BQXMzDM03niqtGHf7RdsEsH6hhuAyTQ_uU4uLub0Zf55A%40mail.gmail.com.