Hi Larry,
Well, everything I am going to tell you is assuming you have just done a
stock install of some recent RedHat, or have used all RPMs to install.
First type this at the prompt...
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql status
You should get a response similar to this...(pid could be different)
postm
I can't connect to postgresql
Connect to database 'user' failed:Connection refused
connectDB()--connect() failed Connection refused
Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections
at UNIX socket 5432 ?
How do I fix this ?
I started reading the html docs and it didn't