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<br>From: Ricardo Martin Gomez <rimartingomez(at)hotmail(dot)com>
<br>Sent: Nov 24, 2018 7:16 AM
<br>To: "pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
<br>Subject: Re: could not connect to server, in order to operate pgAdmin/PostgreSQL
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You must be check postgres.conf file in order to see the particular port.<br>
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Sometimes postgres is running but in another port 5433, 5434, etc.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 24, 2018 3:25:02 AM<br>
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<div>On 11/23/2018 08:31 PM, Anne Marie Harm wrote:<br>
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Unfortunately I'm unable to operate pgAdmin/PostgreSQL; first of all I can only install version 9.5 (tried versions 11, 10, and 9.6 -- but cannot install).</span></font></div>
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How come. (Are you running a really old distro version?)<br>
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<font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:16px">could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061) Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? could not connect to server: Connection
refused (0x0000274D/10061) Is the server running on host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?</span></font></div>
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Well, <b>is</b> Postgres running? You installed Pg but did you start it? These two commands will tell you:<br>
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pg_ctl status # when logged in as user postgres<br>
sudo netstat -an | grep 5432<br>
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