On 6/17/07, Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume(dot)yziquel(at)free(dot)fr> wrote:
> > yziquel(at)seldon:~$ telnet 127.0.0.1 5432
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
>
> It's then waiting for input, but no matter what I type, I get:
>
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> What's going wrong here?
My wild guess would be that psql is smarter than the
dumb telnet ... you'd get similar results from an LDAP
server ...
Try using psql (the tool that's meant for this kind of
activity).
> Guillaume.
-- Cheers,
Andrej