On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you for the replies, > > Actually I did not change the port number. For some bizarre reason, the > pgsql 8.1 debian package comes with port 5433 pre-configured and this was > exactly was causing the problem, of course, I wasn't noting that the port > was different, but they are so similar (that's what happens when you have a > stressful day of work..). I changed it to 5432 and everything went fine. > > Do you see how little changes can make a **big** difference. I wonder what > was going through the head of the person who altered the port number for > this release... Actually, what debian and ubuntu do is allow you to have > 1 version of pgsql installed at a time, and each version gets the next available port. So, it's likely your machine once had another version like 8.0 on it, and then had 8.1 added.
