[postgis-users] What have I got wrong?

[Nicolas Ribot]

Specifically, did you try
createdb -p 5433 ?

I'm not a Ubuntu specialist, but is it possible you already have a
stock postgresql running on port 5432 and that the 9.1 version took
the 5433 port to run on ?

Nicolas

On 9 July 2012 18:08, Nicolas Ribot <nicolas.ribot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is the PostgreSQL server started on port 5433 ? (default port is 5432)
> (ps aux |grep postgres may show you information about started postgres program)
>
> Nicolas
>
> On 9 July 2012 17:45, Phil Shea <peashea at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Apologies to everyone if this has already been documented before or if my
>> problem is so obvious but......
>>
>> After trying for the best part of three days I'm unable (unsure what the
>> heck I'm doing wrong) with trying to get postgis working with postgres. If
>> anyone can point out what it is I be hugely grateful.
>>
>> I've followed the official postgis installation documentation and guides /
>> tutorials on the PostGIS WIKI and keep arriving at the same message below in
>> a terminal window.
>>
>> createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to
>> server: No such file or directory
>> Is the server running locally and accepting
>> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5433"?
>>
>> If it helps I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have been trying to bring
>> things to life with Postgres 9.1 and PostGIS 2.0.1
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any support.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Geo-rookie
>>
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