How to enable remote access to PostgreSQL database server
Once you have your PostgreSQL database server installed, up and running, due to security reasons by default remote access to connect with your database instance is disabled. If you try connecting with your PostgreSQL database server from client machine, you will encounter error. could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061) Following screenshot displays error I received when trying to connect from a windows client machine using pgAdmin III Following below steps you will be able to enabled remote access to PostgreSQL database server. Before even we start it is important to know that there are two configuration files (and others) which control how your database server works. This configuration files contains settings that needs to be tweaked or changed to make your database instance run as per your needs. postgresql.conf (Used to set various parameters that affect the database) pg_hba.conf (Used to control client authentication, » Read more