First weird problem...
The other day, out of the blue, our application reported an error saying it
could not connect to the postgres db. The hostname that it reported is the
name of the machine but it hasn't been used in awhile. However, it does
have a valid cname entry in dns pointing to the correct host. I added the
name in the /etc/hosts file on the server and the problem was fixed.
Next weird problem...
I recently upgraded a few nodes that connect to the server to Redhat 9. I
installed all the necessary rpm's and when I tried to connect to the remote
server, I get the following error.
# psql -U postgres -d dbname -h server_name
psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
Is the server running on host server_name and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
Here is the output of netstat -ae | grep tcp | grep LIST
...
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
...
As you can see, postgres is listening on localhost put not "0.0.0.0:5432" as
I see in many posts to this site. This was working fine before but now I
cannot connect from any other server that I have given permission to in
pg_hba.conf.
local all all trust
host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
host all all 10.64.228.10 255.255.255.255 trust
host all all 10.64.228.112 255.255.255.255 trust
host all all 10.64.228.115 255.255.255.255 trust
And Yes I have the "-i" option specified in my postmaster command...
/usr/local/db/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -c log_connections=on -h server_name
-D /usr/local/db/pgsql/data
and Yes I have tcpip_socket = true in postgresql.conf.
No, I do not have multiple installs of postgres on this system and I am sure
they are using the correct configuration files.
This was all working fine until I recently. It has been a long time since I
have restarted the server ( 5:05pm up 377 days, 18:36, 7 users, load
average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00) and it has been a long time since I restarted the
postgres DB. I wonder if some weirdness is happening which isn't allowing
postgres to bind to tcp port 5432.
>From the server... This is connecting through the socket...
# psql -h server_name -U postgres -d dbname
Welcome to psql 7.3.2, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit
dbname=# \q
>From the server... This is trying to connect to the port...
# psql -h 10.64.228.10 -U postgres -d dbname
psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
Is the server running on host 10.64.228.10 and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
Any ideas what could be happening?
Thanks
Richard
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