"Tille, Andreas" <TilleA@rki.de> writes:
> No I did not. Even if I set
> unix_socket_directory = '/tmp'
> explicitely in /usr/local/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf but this doesn�t
> change anything.
No, because that's telling the postmaster to put the socket in /tmp,
which is what it was doing anyway. Your problem is that psql is doing
something different from the postmaster.
> and I do not see any remander from the Debian settings but the problem
> remains that the socket is created under /tmp but from postgres
> expected to be under /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432.
Do you perhaps have PGHOST set to /var/run/postgresql in psql's
environment?
regards, tom lane