bk226157@skynet.be (pierre) writes:
> This morning I saw my database had no new record added since
> yesterday.
> I tried first to connect to my db but I got the following answer:
>> psql tkgdb1240
> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
> Is the postmaster running locally
> and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'?
> I displayed the process:
>> ps -ef | grep post
> postgres 6089 1 0 Dec 27 pts/ta 0:47
> /opt/postgres/bin/postmaster -i -D /db1240/data
Looks to me like your postmaster is fine. Probably what is not fine
is the socket file /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432. Do you have some cron job that
cleans out /tmp periodically? If so, you might need to teach it not
to remove socket files.
regards, tom lane
