postgres TCP Connection [WAS Re: postgresql dblink not working in FC5]

[kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 13:47, Mauricio Vergara Ereche wrote:
> El Jueves, 20 de Abril de 2006 15:39, Gordon Messmer escribió:
> [...]
>
> > So... is postmaster listening on the TCP port?  It would need to be, if
> > you're specifying 'hostaddr'.
> >
> > Use 'netstat -tlnp' to see if port 5432 is open.  If not, you'll need to
> > configure Postgres to listen on a TCP socket.  You can either specify
> > "PGOPTS=-i" in /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/postgresql, or "tcpip_socket = true"
> > in /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
>
> That last option gives me in /var/lib/pgsql/pgstartup.log this message
>
> FATAL:  unrecognized configuration parameter "tcpip_socket"
>
> It's misspelled or something?
>
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In postgres version 8:
"server configuration parameters virtual_host and tcpip_socket have been 
replaced with a more general parameter listen_addresses. Also, the server now 
listens on localhost by default, which eliminates the need for the -i 
postmaster switch in many scenarios."

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/release-8-0.html