Re: Connecting to a remote db server

Sorry, rhel 5.8. so there is a separate client install package?

Kevin Struckhoff, TDWI
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 3:23 PM
To: Struckhoff, Kevin
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Connecting to a remote db server

Struckhoff, Kevin wrote:
> I've installed postgres 9.2 on a server, call it db01. I now want to access postgres from my app server, call it app01.
>
> What do I install on the app01 server? I've installed postgres 9.2 on it and set the postgresesql.conf file's listen_address to a value of '*' on both machines. I've also modified the pg_hba.conf file to be wide open for now on both machines.
>
> It seems that something else is missing or needs to be done. Googling wasn't much help, the results weren't current.

What's your operating system? There are two separate pieces, client and
server. On the application side you don't need the server packages, so
normally there's no postgresql.conf file there at all, and no
pg_hba.conf either; both are server-side only configuration files. You
just need libpq, and whatever client libraries your apps use.

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