Re: pgadmin not processing scheduled jobs

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Robert Young <robbyoung21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I've solved the issue. pgagent.pga_job.jobhostagent must be blank. Thanks
> to this link http://forums.enterprisedb.com/posts/list/1419.page
>
> Anyway, the docs say ... "optionally the hostname of a specific machine
> running pgAgent, if this job should only run on that specific server. If
> left empty, any server may run the job. This is not normally an issue for
> SQL-only jobs, however any jobs with batch/shell steps may need to be
> targetted to a specific server." ..., so why didn't it work when I specified
> the host of 127.0.0.1 or localhost?

I'm just guessing, but it could be that your machine is setup to use
local unix sockets and not allow tcp/ip connections.