Re: permission denied on socket

I checked the permissions on /tmp directory and it shows "drwxrwxrwt."
already, do I need to check something else as well ?

Regards.

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 3:00 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 3:32 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
> >
> > wrote:
> >> Best guess is you are using a version of psql that is expecting the
> >> socket to be somewhere else then where it actually is.
>
> > Is "permission denied" really the error you get when the socket does not
> > exist?
>
> Nope, that should mean either that /tmp is not readable, or that the
> socket file is there but has restrictive permissions.
>
> That doesn't necessarily make Adrian's answer wrong though.
>
> regards, tom lane
>