Re: pg_connect fails, pgsql works

Frank Bax <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.php
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John Cartwright wrote:
> I'm using php 5.1.6 on a RHEL 5 system connecting to a postgresql server 
> version 8.2.3.   I think that TCP connections are enabled correctly in 
> the server's pg_hba.conf and I can successfully connect from the client 
> using pgsql.  However, trying to use pg_connect() w/ a call like:
> 
> $con = pg_connect("host='postgres1.ngdc.noaa.gov' port=5432 
> sslmode='allow' user='test' password='mypassword' dbname='test'")
> 
> fails saying:
> 
> Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: 
> Permission denied\n\tIs the server running on host 
> &quot;postgres1.ngdc.noaa.gov&quot; and accepting\n\tTCP/IP connections 
> on port 5432?
> 
> I'm perplexed since I can connect w/ pgsql from the same workstation 
> using the same database, user, password.


Are you using all the same options when starting psql?  What psql 
command are you issuing?  Are you running psql on the same system that 
runs apache/php?

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