Unable to Connect to Server Error Help - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Michael J. Cosentino
Subject Unable to Connect to Server Error Help
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Msg-id CAJtCDcZp=uwZ1o0zw2YZgCZ5Z-jejhiW5FTkRKM3mGpAcT2bJg@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Unable to Connect to Server Error Help  (Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>)
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Hello,

I am on a MacOS, (10.15.3), I am new to SQL in general, and I've downloaded both the Postgres.app and pgadmin 4 for the first time - trying to learn from a book from the library.
When I initially tried to open pgadmin, I got the error "The application server could not be contacted."

I closed Postgres.app, and restarted pgadmin, and got past that initial error, and got pgadmin to load in my browser (Chrome), but there were no Servers in the object browser of pgadmin (the pane on the left).

I tried to connect a new server, and got the following error message:
"unable to connect to server. timeout expired"

I tried inputting the server name for the server from Postgres.app, but that didn't seem to do anything. It looks like pgadmin is connecting to the correct port (5432), but I basically have no clue what i'm doing wrong.

attaching some screenshots of what i'm seeing in pg admin.

thanks!
mike
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