Re: psql on Mac

Thank you!

> XXX:~ ozan$ nslookup localhost
> > Server: 192.168.206.99
> > Address: 192.168.206.99#53
> > Name: localhost.unitn.it
> > Address: 10.31.101.168
>
> Well, *that's* screwed up.  You should complain to your local network
> manager about it.  "localhost" ought to resolve to 127.0.0.1,
> or ::1/128 in IPv6-land, not something else.  It's possible that
> 10.31.101.168 is your Mac's address, but that still doesn't make this
> correct behavior.  So for the moment, don't use "-h localhost".
>

Before I go and break b.., can you guess the reason for this?

If you want the connection to go to the database named "lecture",
> you need to say "psql lecture", or some more verbose form of that
> such as "psql -h 127.0.0.1 -U ozan lecture".


This seems to work for accessing the database on the command line. The
Python code seems to work as well.

Though, I must admit that I am still pretty much confused about what is
going on. So, the problem seems to be the localhost that is somehow messed
up. Is that right?

Cheers,
Ozan