>You're missing something. Check which port you are actually talking to.
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>I do this all the time --- my development machine standardly has half a
>dozen postmasters running on it, one for each major release 7.0-current.
>They do not impinge on each other at all. It helps to build each
>release from source so that you can set a different install prefix and
>default port number for each one.
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I had just discovered that I need to specify the port when creating a
database. I had thought that I had read in the documentation that if I
built the server from source and specified the port to use that the
client would be bound to that by default. This does not appear to be the
case. Maybe I misread it. Thanks for the quick response.