Kedar,
Thanks, that was indeed the problem. I was following a book which is otherwise very well written, but which did not mention the need to start the PostgreSQL server. Glassfish was supposed to be pinging to a different server. I started the PostgreSQL server and configured it (as you suggested) and it pings fine.
Thanks again,
-Jerry
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