Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Luca Ferrari wrote: >> I've started the daemon as: >> postmaster -D /mnt/data/database & > Is that how you normally start your DB server? Ditto. But if you are using a stock postgresql.conf then in fact the postmaster will *not* be listening to TCP with that command line. You need to check listen_addresses or tcpip_socket depending on which Postgres release this is. regards, tom lane