At 10:41 AM 8/24/00 -0700, Rolle, Ted wrote:
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<smaller>I've looked through the docs and didn't see reference to
connecting to PostgreSQL from the "outside" -- via a port.</smaller>
<smaller>I'm writing a program to access a PostgreSQL database from the
mainframe. I can hit an IP address:port -- the question what is the
protocol to establish communications with the DB?
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<smaller>Ted</smaller>
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Default port is 5432, you can change it with the postmaster's -p switch,
-i enables
non-local access.
"man postmaster" will tell you pretty much the same thing.
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