In response to Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Bill Moran wrote: > > > The ADODB error message indicates that you are connecting to localhost via > > TCP/IP. The default for psql when you don't specify a host is to connect > > via unix domain socket. You're not testing the same thing. > > Bill > > Oh. > > > See if > > psql -h localhost cms > > works. > > Yes, it does: > > [rshepard@salmo ~]$ psql -h localhost cms > psql (9.0.3) > Type "help" for help. > > cms=# Well, that blows my first theory out of the water ;) Check the PG server logs, and consider increasing some logging levels on the server. PG does some pretty good logging of failed connections if you have the settings right. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/