On 24/12/2011 12:54, Shankar Palaniappan wrote: > On Dec 23, 7:51 pm, adrian.kla...@xxxxxxxxx (Adrian Klaver) wrote: >> On Friday, December 23, 2011 1:32:49 am Shankar Palaniappan wrote: >> >>> Hi John, >> >>> Thanks for your response. >> >>> I am able to connect to the database through psql command. Please find >>> the commands that I have tried through PHP and no success for past 3 >>> days. >>> Please let me know whether you can help me in this issue. >> >> Some questions: >> 1) What is the connection string are you using for psql? > > psql -p 5495 -d support_tool -U gls -h localhost > >> 2) How are you connecting in each case(PHP,psql), remotely or locally? > I am connecting the psql from local and PHP from remote system. I was > also able to access the postgres from the same system using C program > >> 3) What is listen_addresses set to in postgresql.conf? > > I am running the postmaster with > > postmaster -i -D /path > > I am running with the following version and I dont have the privilege > to update the existing versions. listen_addresses option is not > available in the existing version > > postmaster (PostgreSQL) 7.4.2 > PHP 5.2.6 > > Today I found one issue.. where I was not able to run the postmaster > with -h option ( that is not other than localhost) > > The error what I got is that it was not able to create the listening > socket. > > LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Can't assign requested address > HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5496? If not, > wait a few seconds and retry. I don't know if this will help, but you have port 5496 here, and port 5495 in your psql command above. Also, PostgreSQL 7.* is VERY old, and as far as I know is no longer being maintained - so if you're being bitten by a bug, it's probably not going to get fixed. You should upgrade if you can, or move to a different service provider if you can't. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@xxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general