Postgres at different locations?

[sphinxx]

When I install postgress on my laptop, while connected to internet at my dad's house it works fine. When I try to run it on the same laptop, but at my own place problems occur.
Can anybody tell me why that is? Does it have something to do with different ip-adresses?

Thanks already

[Peligroso]

What are the error messages you're getting? Are you using networked PostgreSQL?

[sphinxx]

this error appears:

could not connect to server, connection refused (0x0000274D/10061)
is the server running on localhost and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

I didn't see anything about networked postgres, is that necessary?

[Peligroso]

No, it's not at all necessary, was just wondering if it could be a firewall issue or similar. It sounds like your postgres server isn't running which can happen sometimes.

Click Start --> Programs --> PostgreSQL --> Stop Service, then Start --> Programs --> PostgreSQL --> Start Service to restart PostgreSQL. If PostgreSQL does not start properly at this point and PT3 doesn't start working, go to C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.x/data and find the file named postmaster.pid. Once you find that file, delete it, then attempt to restart PostgreSQL as above, and it should start properly.

If this happens every time your computer starts, you should set PostgreSQL to start automatically when your computer boots. See Setting up PostgreSQL to autostart for more information.

[sphinxx]

Thank you very much, I'll try it tomorrow, right now i am at my dad's house so it should work anyway