On Tuesday 04 September 2007 10:59:38 Tena Sakai wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I had been running postgres with postgresql.conf file > as little changed as possible from distributed version. > And lately I became a bit curious as well as confused. > > In my configuration file both lines > #listen_addresses = 'localhost' > and > #port = 5432 > are commented out. > > What does this mean? Is postgress listening on port > 5432? > > Regards, > > Tena Sakai > tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The above values are the defaults, postgres should be listening on port 5432 and only listening on localhost for connections. You can double check by running these commands in a psql session: show listen_addresses ; show port ; /Kevin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate