Perhaps because I always used Postgres (on windows atleast) with cygwin, I never had to deal with the pg_hba.conf before, but correcting it and using the -i switch to start the postmaster has allowed me to access the db with DBI. Thanks John and David. "John Cuson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... you might also check to see if the new installation overwrote the old pg_hba.conf file.
john cuson ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle >>> David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/22/02 11:59PM >>> On 4/22/02 9:41 PM, "Dave K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed: > OfCourse posting the error might help > > could not connect to server: Connection refused at ./test_pg.pl line 11. Do you have TCP/IP support enabled for your PostgreSQL database? Regards, David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 15726394 http://david.wheeler.net/ Yahoo!: dew7e Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]