Re: permission denied on socket - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Atul Kumar
Subject Re: permission denied on socket
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In response to Re: permission denied on socket  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: permission denied on socket  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I checked the permissions on /tmp directory and it shows "drwxrwxrwt." already, do I need to check something else as well ?

Regards.

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 3:00 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 3:32 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> wrote:
>> Best guess is you are using a version of psql that is expecting the
>> socket to be somewhere else then where it actually is.

> Is "permission denied" really the error you get when the socket does not
> exist?

Nope, that should mean either that /tmp is not readable, or that the
socket file is there but has restrictive permissions.

That doesn't necessarily make Adrian's answer wrong though.

                        regards, tom lane

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