Re: Problem connecting with PHP in OS X - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Eric Marsh wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> Does anyone have any idea why host=localhost is breaking my connection?
> Is there a configuration value I should be setting?

I don't know about PHP but usually specifying explicitly host=localhost
will try to connect via TCP/IP on localhost:5432, while default action
is to connect to local "unix domain" socket.

Localhost itself is a regular hostname, which usually should map to
loopback ip 127.0.0.1.

Check out PostgreSQL documentation for pg_hba.conf to allow TCP/IP
connections from localhost.

Also, postgresql.conf should contain line

    tcpip_socket = on

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Antti Haapala