This has a trivial workaround - just set PGHOST for pg_ctl:
[andrew@constanza inst.codfix.5705]$
PGHOST=/home/andrew/pgl/inst.codfix.5705 bin/pg_ctl -D data/ -l logfile
-w start
waiting for server to start.... done
server started
[andrew@constanza inst.codfix.5705]$
cheers
andrew
Radoslaw Zielinski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> "pg_ctl -w -D ... start" doesn't work when unix_socket_directory is set
> to somewhere else than the compiled in default ("/tmp"). Having this is
> useful for the startup scripts, so the status "DONE" actually means
> success, instead of "maybe".
>
> Jeff Davis wrote about it a while ago:
> http://svr5.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-09/msg01141.php
>
>
> Simple hacky patch for v8.2.5; maybe someone finds it useful before
> the proper config parser is integrated:
> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/postgresql-pg_ctl-fix.patch?rev=HEAD
>
>
