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Accessing PostgreSQL from a remote host ?

From
Stéphane Pinel
Date:
As a newbie, I would like to know exactly what I have to
do (and how) (on the server) in order to get a running connection to my
PostgreSQL database from a remote host (using a GUI
client).

I'm going to get mad since I've tried everything I could
read about this topic without any success for hours ;-)

MacOS X 10.2.4
PostgreSQL 7.3 (Marc Liyanage package)

Thanks !

Stephane


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Re: Accessing PostgreSQL from a remote host ?

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
Stephane,

> As a newbie, I would like to know exactly what I have to
> do (and how) (on the server) in order to get a running connection to my
> PostgreSQL database from a remote host (using a GUI
> client).
>
> I'm going to get mad since I've tried everything I could
> read about this topic without any success for hours ;-)
>
> MacOS X 10.2.4
> PostgreSQL 7.3 (Marc Liyanage package)

It's easy:

1) Change your postgresql.conf file (which should be in Postgres' data
directory)  so that the option reads:
tcpip_socket = true

2) Modify your pg_hba.conf file to allow connections from the host from which
you are trying to connect.

3) Restart PostgreSQL

4) Configure your remote client to look to your database host to connect with
the authentication method you indicated in 2.

Have fun!


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-Josh Berkus
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Re: Accessing PostgreSQL from a remote host ?

From
Stéphane Pinel
Date:
Le vendredi, 14 fév 2003, à 21:40 Europe/Paris, Josh Berkus a écrit :

> Stephane,
>
>> As a newbie, I would like to know exactly what I have to
>> do (and how) (on the server) in order to get a running connection to
>> my
>> PostgreSQL database from a remote host (using a GUI
>> client).
>>
>> I'm going to get mad since I've tried everything I could
>> read about this topic without any success for hours ;-)
>>
>> MacOS X 10.2.4
>> PostgreSQL 7.3 (Marc Liyanage package)
>
> It's easy:
>
> 1) Change your postgresql.conf file (which should be in Postgres' data
> directory)  so that the option reads:
> tcpip_socket = true

OK. I've looked at this file and I saw that every line start with a
'#'. To my understanding
(approximatively nothing), this is a "comment" tag ? Should I rename:
"#tcpip_socket = true"
to
"tcpip_socket = true" ?

>
> 2) Modify your pg_hba.conf file to allow connections from the host
> from which
> you are trying to connect.
>
> 3) Restart PostgreSQL

Should I need to restart with the option -i ?

>
> 4) Configure your remote client to look to your database host to
> connect with
> the authentication method you indicated in 2.

Right.

Thank you very much

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Re: Accessing PostgreSQL from a remote host ?

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
 Stephane,

> OK. I've looked at this file and I saw that every line start with a
> '#'. To my understanding
> (approximatively nothing), this is a "comment" tag ? Should I rename:
> "#tcpip_socket = true"
> to
> "tcpip_socket = true" ?

Yes.

> Should I need to restart with the option -i ?

No, the above option takes care of that.

> Thank you very much

You're welcome.  Post back if you have trouble with pg_hba.conf


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