On 11/27/23 16:42, Atul Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> unix_socket_directories is set to default i.e. /tmp and I could see the
> socket in /tmp directory.
You have not answered:
How did you install Postgres?
Do you have more then one version of psql installed?
Though I am pretty sure I know the answer to the second question.
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
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> On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 2:11 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
> <mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>> wrote:
>
> Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> writes:
> > On 11/27/23 12:11, Atul Kumar wrote:
> >> I found that localhost was set to .bash_profile and when I
> removed it
> >> and then re-attempted to connected the database using "psql
> postgres", I
> >> got this new error:
> >>
> >> psql postgres -p 5432
> >> psql: error: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> >> Is the server running locally and accepting
> >> connections on Unix domain socket
> >> "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
> > Do you have more then one version of psql installed?
>
> Yeah, that. You're apparently using a version of psql/libpq that
> thinks the default Unix socket location is /var/run/postgresql;
> but the postmaster you are using did not create a socket there.
> (Probably it put one in /tmp instead, which is the out-of-the-box
> default location. But some distros consider that insecure so they
> override it, typically to /var/run/postgresql/.)
>
> The easiest workaround if you have a mishmash of Postgres libraries
> is to tell the postmaster to create sockets in both places.
> See "unix_socket_directories" parameter.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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Adrian Klaver
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