Thanks Alvaro, that works. Appreciate the help.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@2ndquadrant.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 4:06 PM
To: Struckhoff, Kevin
Cc: Kevin Grittner; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Connecting to a remote db server
Struckhoff, Kevin wrote:
> I'm trying to use the psql tool:
>
> /home/postgres->psql test
> 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"?
>
> the answer of course is No..
Oh, well, you need to specify the hostname or address of the remote server:
psql -h db01 test
Otherwise, it's just trying to connect to localhost, as you've seen.
You might need to adjust pg_hba.conf on the db01 server to allow
connections from your app01 client host.
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