On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Oli Sennhauser wrote:
> I would like to start a second postmaster on my server.
> First problem was the lock file /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock
> and its socket. But you can workaround that by the -k
> parameter. So I was able to start at least 3 clusters...
If you want to use separate directories for the socket, you
need to use -h <directory> (and -p <port> if it's not the default)
when connecting with psql. However, you probably just want to
use different port numbers to start the postmasters and then use
psql -p <port> to connect.