Re: Snapshot is not working

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Tille, Andreas" <TilleA(at)rki(dot)de> writes:
> > psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
> > Is the postmaster running locally
> > and accepting connections on Unix socket '/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432'?
>
> That's not the usual location for a PG socket file. How did you tell
> psql to look there, and are you sure the postmaster thinks the same?
> (If there's a socket file present in /tmp rather than
> /var/run/postgresql, it's a strong tipoff that you've gotten this
> wrong...)
This is in fact the case. I wrote an /etc/init.postgresql script
which does at start:

touch ${POSTGRES_LOG:=/var/log/postgres.log}
chown postgres.postgres $POSTGRES_LOG
su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >$POSTGRES_LOG 2>&1 &"

which is in my opinion what the INSTALL file suggests. I don´t know
why the socket is created as /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 ? Any idea what could
be wrong?

Kind regards

Andreas.