Re: Please Help me with connecting my PostgreSQL

From: David Blewett <david(at)dawninglight(dot)net>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com>, psycopg(at)postgresql(dot)org, Lasntonpeng <lanstonpeng(at)gmail(dot)com>, psycopg-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Please Help me with connecting my PostgreSQL
Date: 2011-03-31 14:12:22
Message-ID: AANLkTi=p_ibFrEj35GjDHpFQ3kH1wHT++vfSOk1k6ajv@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thursday, March 31, 2011 6:42:35 am Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
>
>>
>> To connect to a database on the local machine, the quick answer is:
>> add host=127.0.0.1 to the connection string, which makes it connect to
>> the network socket instead of the unix socket. And I mean "127.0.0.1",
>> not "localhost".
>
> localhost works also:)
>
> No host specified:
> [unknown]-2011-03-31 07:00:26.140 PDT-0LOG:  connection received: host=[local]
> aklaver-2011-03-31 07:00:26.142 PDT-0LOG:  connection authorized: user=aklaver
> database=test

The host=[local] bit means it accepted the connection over the UNIX
socket. This won't work if you are trying to connect remotely.

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Thanks,

David Blewett

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