Starting the postmaster with a "-i" option did the trick. -i Allows clients to connect via TCP/IP (Internet domain) connections. Without this option, only local Unix domain socket connections are accepted. This option corre- sponds to setting tcpip_socket=true in postgresql.conf. --tcpip-socket=false has the opposite effect of this option. However, this still does not solve my problem of having a java application connect to the postgres DB server. I get the following error: Couldn't connect: print out a stack trace and exit. org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: A connection error has occurred: org.postgres ql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "127.0.0.1", user "b rakesh", database "testing123", SSL off at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Connection.openConnectionV3(Abstrac tJdbc1Connection.java:337) at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Connection.openConnection(AbstractJ dbc1Connection.java:214) at org.postgresql.Driver.connect(Driver.java:139) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:559) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:189) at db_connect_pgsql.main(db_connect_pgsql.java:25) -Bhavana Tom Lane wrote: "Bhavana.Rakesh" <Bhavana.Rakesh@xxxxxxxx> writes:Here's what happens when I specify the port number[brakesh@lnx383 ~]$ psql -U brakesh -p 5000 -h 127.0.0.1 -d testing123 psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5000?5000 being a nonstandard port number, it's certainly possible that the kernel is filtering this connection attempt. "Connection refused" might mean either that there's no process listening to TCP port 5000, or that the kernel rejected the connection before looking for a listening process. In any case it seems highly probable that you do have two postmasters running on this machine, one at port 5000 and one at port 5432. The psql calls without an explicit -p switch would have defaulted to port 5432 unless you've done something strange to your installation. regards, tom lane |