i have installed postgres 8.4 server in ubuntu 10.04, clearly following all procedures. what is disappointing me i cant establish connection to the database server when am configuring postgres with php. whenever i use this postgres database function i dont even receive an error message. the server just remains quite. more on than when i execute the command
#psql template1 on my terminal i receive this error message psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"? can someone help me out please