Carlo Poso <carloposo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The message I get after entering the PW is "could not connect to server: > Connection refused Is the server > running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting TCP/IP connections on port > 5432? could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running > on host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting TCP/IP connections on port > 5432?" So the step you missed is "start the Postgres server". On OSX that's usually done by setting up a LaunchDaemon script, IIRC (it's been awhile since I messed with that). regards, tom lane