Clarification on connecting to ParadeDB Docker image

[thomasdba]

"You may set user, password, and dbname to whatever values you want — these will be your database connection credentials. By default, this will start a ParadeDB instance at http://localhost:5432"

http ?

[philippemnoel]

Hi! Welcome :) Could you please clarify your question?

[thomasdba]

above is from https://docs.paradedb.com/introduction , but I think postgres cannot support http protocol ,so I guess http://localhost:5432/ is not correct .

[philippemnoel]

You're right this is misleading, due to our testing with docker-compose. I've clarified the connection documentation.

[philippemnoel]

Hi @thomasdba! You were right, this part of the documentation was misleading. We clarified it in #884

The correct syntax to connect is:

docker exec -it paradedb psql -U <user> -d <dbname> -p 5432 -W