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osm2pgsql not working in windows

Hi, I have just downloaded osm2pgsql for Windows and I am trying to execute:

osm2pgsql -s -U postgres -d gisdb C:\Users\MyUser\Documents\data.osm

However, I am gettint this error:

osm2pgsql SVN version 0.83.0 (64bit id space)

Error: Connection to database failed: could not connect to server: No such file or directory

  Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.sPGSQL.5432"?

What is the problem?

Thanks!

osm2pgsql

asked 22 Apr '14, 22:39

AnderOSM
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2 Answers:

Try the additional options --port 5432 and --host localhost to force osm2pgsql to make a TCP connection instead of using the Unix Domain Socket.

answered 22 Apr '14, 23:38

Frederik Ramm ♦
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I also needed -W so that the command line asks for my database user's password.

(23 Apr '14, 12:00) AnderOSM

0	Are you sure your postgres server is running ? answered 22 Apr '14, 23:31 exxos 81●3●3●8 accept rate: 0%