Thank you both for guiding the blind! You were both correct, I needed to enable the tcpip_socket option. However, despite several "pg_ctl reload" attempts, the running copy of PostgreSQL wouldn't listen on port 5432. In the end I rebooted my iMac (acting as a db server) and restarted a new session of PostgreSQL. this sorted it!
I can now connect using Rev 2.1 as well as using the admin tools I mentioned.
Thanks again.
Best regards
Peter
Make sure that pgsql is indeed running on port 5432. I could be wrong, but I think the default installation of pgsql runs with tcp/ip socket off, and only running a local unix domain socket. Opening the daemon on 5432 requires explicit configuration in postgresql.conf. see also pg_hba.conf.
You can try "telnet localhost 5432" to see if there is anything listening on that port and rule out whether it's a firewall issue or just nothing is listening on 5432.
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. http://ARCplanning.com
Have an eye on your "../pgsql/data/postgresql.conf" file and do test in the first lines of it by activing the TCP/IP connection and so :
# Connection Parameters # #tcpip_socket = false tcpip_socket = true
#ssl = false
#max_connections = 32 #superuser_reserved_connections = 2
#port = 5432 port = 5432
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