"Jason L. Amerson" <drjason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I connected to PostgreSQL locally. I ran “show listen_addresses;” and it returned “localhost.” I ran “show port;” and it returned “5432.” I am now confused. I edited the “postgresql.conf” file and change the setting to ‘*’. Then I restarted the server with “service postgresql restart.” I was in root since I had to edit the config files. I thought maybe I edited the wrong file, like maybe there were two in two different locations or something. I ran “show confg_file;” and it returned “/usr/local/psql/data/postgresql.conf.” That is the same file I edited from the start. To be sure, I edited the file by using “nano /usr/local/psql/data/postgresql.conf.” I went down and found that I did have it as “listen_addresses = ‘*’ yet when I run “show listen_addresses”, it shows “localhost.” I am confused. When I run “netstat -nlt”, the results show that it is listening to “127.0.0.1:5432.” According to what you wrote here, you did everything right, so it's something you failed to mention. One thing I'm wondering is whether you removed the comment symbol (#) from the listen_addresses line when you edited it. As installed, postgresql.conf is pretty much all comments. You might get more insight from select * from pg_settings where name = 'listen_addresses'; particularly the source, sourcefile, sourceline fields. regards, tom lane
