how does psql know where to go?

[Michael Lush-2]

I have two machines bonny and clide which share a NFS disk
(which contains the postgres binarys)

bonny is running a postgres database 'testdb' on a local disk
using the binarys on the NFS disk (/nfs/postgres/).

If I log into clide and run '/nfs/postgres/bin/psql testdb'

It connects to postgres on bonny and creates a terminal session.

How does it know where to connect and how do I stop it?

I want to run a backup database on clide and don't want any
confusion as to which database I'm working on!.

I've stripped out all references to postgres in the enviroment
and I set listen_addresses = 'localhost' on the database on bonny
which I would assume would prevent external connections.

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[Michael Lush-2]

Facepalm  I had a postgres session running on clide

sorry to have bothered you

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Michael

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Michael Lush wrote:

> I have two machines bonny and clide which share a NFS disk
> (which contains the postgres binarys)
>
> bonny is running a postgres database 'testdb' on a local disk
> using the binarys on the NFS disk (/nfs/postgres/).
>
> If I log into clide and run '/nfs/postgres/bin/psql testdb'
>
> It connects to postgres on bonny and creates a terminal session.
>
> How does it know where to connect and how do I stop it?
>
> I want to run a backup database on clide and don't want any
> confusion as to which database I'm working on!.
>
> I've stripped out all references to postgres in the enviroment
> and I set listen_addresses = 'localhost' on the database on bonny
> which I would assume would prevent external connections.
>
> --
> Michael
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Michael John Lush PhD Tel:[phone]
> Bioinformatician HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee Email:
> hgnc@...
> European Bioinformatics Institute
> Hinxton, Cambridge
> URL: http://www.genenames.org
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>

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