Re: JDBC driver & local server

From: Christian Pöcher <Poecher(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: JDBC driver & local server
Date: 2004-03-09 12:32:34
Message-ID: 002301c405d2$996fab80$110acad4@dose
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From: "stm23" <STM23(at)student(dot)canterbury(dot)ac(dot)nz>
To: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: [NOVICE] JDBC driver & local server

> also, when i type the command: psql
> i get:
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Is the postmaster running on your system? It is the main process of the
server and psql is merely an interactive terminalclient to the server. Basic
documentation is here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/tutorial-start.html For the
beginning the first chapter should be suffice.

chris

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