[Babase] connecting to psql
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:26:06 +0000
On 10/05/2005 01:43:31 PM, Leah Gerber wrote:
I tried
>
> $ psql babase_test
>
> psql: could not connect to server: Permission denied
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
Ah, I was wrong.
psql babase_test
should work. The reason why it does not work for you is
that you don't have
PGHOST=localhost
in your environment. (Add the line "export PGHOST=localhost"
to ~/.bash_profile)
Or use:
psql -h localhost babase_test
Karl <kop@meme.com>
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