| From: | Alexander Cohen <alex(at)toomuchspace(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: error connecting to database |
| Date: | 2004-10-01 19:12:31 |
| Message-ID: | D7EDF15D-13DD-11D9-9530-000A95B947DC@toomuchspace.com |
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On 1-Oct-04, at 3:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alexander Cohen <alex(at)toomuchspace(dot)com> writes:
>> Could not connect to server: permission denied.
>> Is the server running locally and accepting
>> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"
>
>> What exctly does this error message mean? What permissions is this
>> error talking about?
>
> The permissions on the socket file /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.
>
> Ordinarily the postmaster will create the socket as world-writable,
> but evidently not this time. Perhaps you have set a nonstandard value
> for "unix_socket_permissions"? Another possibility is that it's not
> the socket file itself, but /tmp that is mis-permissioned.
What kind of permissions does /tmp need?
Alex
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