On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:21 -0700, George Heller wrote:
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or
> directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket
> "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
> I have a lot of data in there, so I dont want to get
> it erased. Any ideas of how I can get this working, if
> I need to restart the postmaster, what would be the
> command? I am just a beginner with this thing, so
> please bear with me.
Try to start the server again, with:
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start
and see the log output. The logs should tell you what the problem is.
Regards,
Jeff Davis