Susan Cassidy <susan.cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=${dbserver};port=$dbport;", > $dbuser, $dbpasswd) or > errexit( "Unable to connect to dbname $dbname, err: $DBI::errstr"); > The exact same connection string works fine in a standalone perl program. Given the permissions errors you mentioned upthread, I'm wondering whether you're running on Red Hat/CentOS, and if so whether SELinux is preventing apache from connecting to unexpected port numbers. I seem to recall that there's a SELinux boolean specifically intended to allow or disallow database connections from webservers, but I couldn't tell you the name offhand. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general