hi Michael 
look up here, this one may shed some light on your problem regardin
odbc connection to postgresql.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2003-01/msg00228.php

Check the config files, see if tcp/ip is enabled, also check for login from 
local (unix socket) odbc drivers dont connect with tcp/ip (not in their 
default setup, but they could be made to use tcp/ip :-)) .. they use local 
unix sockets to do so, check if local connections via socket are also enabled.
On Saturday 01 March 2003 14:55, you wrote:

Hope thisone helped a bit.
Cheers
Szemir

> Hi all,
>  I'm having a bit of trouble getting jdbc to connect to my postgres db. I
> can connect to the database fine using psql with a connection string like
> ./psql -d iala -p 5432 -U postgres -W -h 127.0.0.1
>
> When I try to make that same connection with jdbc, i get the following
> error: IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> Any ideas on why this would work with psql, but fail to authenticate when
> using jdbc?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael

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