can't connect to server on localhost

Started by Heine Ferreiraabout 16 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Heine Ferreira
heine.ferreira@gmail.com

Hi

Last night i mailed a message about me not being able to install Postgresql
8.4.3 successfully on windows 7 professional.
I have since temporary quitted my antivirus and firewall programs and I
could install successfull.
In the installation it askes you for a password which it uses for for the
service account and it also uses the same password to secure the database.
It keeps telling me that my password is wrong. I know what my password is
because I confirmed it.
It does this regardless of whether the anti virus and firewall are running
or not.
I checked and yes the postgres service is running.

H.F.

#2Alban Hertroys
dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl
In reply to: Heine Ferreira (#1)
Re: can't connect to server on localhost

On 6 Apr 2010, at 21:00, Heine Ferreira wrote:

Hi

Last night i mailed a message about me not being able to install Postgresql 8.4.3 successfully on windows 7 professional.
I have since temporary quitted my antivirus and firewall programs and I could install successfull.
In the installation it askes you for a password which it uses for for the service account and it also uses the same password to secure the database.
It keeps telling me that my password is wrong. I know what my password is because I confirmed it.
It does this regardless of whether the anti virus and firewall are running or not.
I checked and yes the postgres service is running.

Whether you need the password or not depends on your settings in pg_hba.conf. It's quite possible that you don't need the password if you're connecting from localhost.

That said, I have no idea what settings PG comes with when installed on Windows.

Alban Hertroys

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