Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.utanet.at!newscore.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail From: "Laurenz Albe" Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql References: <3d6a2f5f-119e-47c9-b397-84bd70935de9@z12g2000yqm.googlegroups.com><2bea9415-e689-4ed6-b26c-6510f78e7e5f@w15g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: free database for Mac OS X? Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:41:12 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Organization: MagistratWien newsserver Message-Id: <1322469693.58450@proxy.dienste.wien.at> X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.203.254.23 X-Trace: 1322469695 aconews.univie.ac.at 71616 141.203.254.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse@univie.ac.at Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.postgresql:284 Mladen Gogala wrote: >> Thanks for the idea of postgresql, bad experience. It took 10+ minutes >> to install to Windows 7 (prompted with fatal error) and yet completed >> installation successfully. It won't start the server. Rebooted, yes, it >> started the server, however, the pgAdmin III (mgr tool) failed to >> connect to it. Don't know what's going on here... > Probably the listener parameter in postgresql.conf. You need to set it to > '*' and restart the service. I don't know about Windows, but the default setting should allow local connections (although OP didn't tell us whether it was a local connection or not). Maybe if we see the relevant parts of postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf, know what was entered into pgAdmin III and what the error message was, we could do more than just guess. Yours, Laurenz Albe