Preparing the Database Server for JDBC
Out of the box, Java does not support unix sockets so the PostgreSQL server must be
configured to allow TCP/IP connections. Starting with server version 8.0 TCP/IP
connections are allowed from
localhost
. To allow connections to other interfaces
than the loopback interface, you must modify the
postgresql.conf
file’s
listen_addresses
setting.
Once you have made sure the server is correctly listening for TCP/IP connections
the next step is to verify that users are allowed to connect to the server. Client
authentication is setup in
pg_hba.conf
. Refer to the main PostgreSQL
documentation
for details .