Bill Moseley <moseley(at)hank(dot)org> writes:
> Hum. lsof knows about the file.
>
> $ lsof -p 1512 | grep /var/run
> postmaste 1512 postgres 4u unix 0xf78b5980 1631 /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432
>
>
> Any ideas what happened to the socket?
Maybe something in your bootup process tried to clean up /var/run and
deleted it after the postmaster had started?
> I had to stop and start the postmaster to get the socket back.
Be interesting to see if you can reproduce it...
-Doug