Re: yum packages for 9.5 vs <=9.4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 1/21/2016 11:46 AM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 10:09 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>> >the yum packages for 9.5 apparently changed the path of the socket
>> >from  /tmp to /var/run/postgresql
> I think we use both now. If not, that must be a packaging bug. On my
> boxes, I can see that the unix_socket_directory points to both.
>


indeed, 9.5 is putting it in both places, but 9.5's libpq is looking for
it in /var/run/pgsql ...  the problem is the older versions are only
putting it in /tmp, so the newer libpq doesn't work.

does unix_socket_directory allow dual locations in 9.1+  ?  I guess I
should just try that...



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