You might want to check that you have run initdb. Log in as user postgres
and type:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb
Then check to make sure that postmaster is actually running, as someone
else suggested.
At 11:21 PM 1/15/00, C.D. Gan wrote:
>I'm just trying to run PGSQL and running the test for it. However I get
>this message,
>
>Connection to database 'template1' failed.
>connectDB() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
>Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix
>socket '5432'?
>
>createdb: database creation failed on i-city.
>
>What does that mean? Is it mean that the connect() file is not found under
>my /usr/local/pgsql/bin?
>
>Gan
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