Re: Should I reinstall over current installation?

On 2/3/20 12:20 PM, Chris Charley wrote:
> I just got my Windows 10 computer in Nov 2019 and installed PostgreSQL
> Jan this year.
>
> I had a problem with Windows update and when I contacted Microsoft, they
> installed a fresh operating system. After that, I was unable to run
> postgres from pgAdmin 4 or from a perl program that accessed the database.
>
> The message I got was:
>
> 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? at pg_01.pl <http://pg_01.pl> line 8.
> **//___^

Does Postgres still exist on the system?

If it does have you started the service?

> I  was considering 2 options:
>
> !) Reinstall postgres over the current without removing the current
> postgres first.
> 2) uninstall the current postgres and then install postgres again.
>
> The tables I created in my database are not many and if I lose them
> doing a reinstall, I could recreate my database and the tables. I was
> considering option (1) as I was wondering if that choice would keep the
> database and tables I created this January.
>
> (The database and contained tables are from 'Practical SQL' by Anthony
> DeBarros.)
>
> A second question is: When I try to edit anything in pgAdmin, sometimes
> it won't let me edit the code. I then refresh the database in the left
> pane and then it allows me to edit the SQL in the query pane.
>
> Thank you for any help you may provide.
>
> Chris

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