Hi Tim,

Port 8080 is reserved for Tomcat web server operations to allow your browser to connect to the site. It isn't meant to be used for your database connection.

To connect to your database, you would need to use a different port that is designated for PostgreSQL. By default, PostgreSQL server uses port 5432 (see https://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-tutorials/connecting-postgresql-using-psql-and-pgadmin for more details).

Just like our XML example here shows how your LabKey server connects to a PostgreSQL database (https://www.labkey.org/Documentation/wiki-page.view?name=cpasxml#db), for your PGAdmin utility (or using the psql command-line tool) to connect to PostgreSQL, you would need to use that same database port as well.

Regards,

Jon