From: | Scott Mead <scott(dot)lists(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Tena Sakai <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: connectivity problem |
Date: | 2009-04-10 20:03:55 |
Message-ID: | d3ab2ec80904101303jfd1cb22of142cdd50ea668b@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I am having difficulty connecting to postgres service from
> a remote machine on the network.
>
> My postgres (8.3.6, on Linux) is running on a machine
> (vixen) and I would like to connect to it from another host.
>
> The host (named blitzen, runs linux as well) appears in
> pg_hba.conf of vixen as:
> host canon all 172.16.1.106/32 md5 # blitzen
>
> and when I issue "psql canon" from blitzen, it complains as:
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
Do you have PGHOST set? If not, psql is going to try to connect to your
local instance of PG via unix sockets. You either need:
export PGHOST=vixen
psql canon
OR
psql -h vixen canon
--Scott
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