Re: postmaster generates no socket

christoph.dellavalle@goetheanum.ch writes:
> in postgresql.conf I set tcpip_socket=true
> unix_socket_directory = '/tmp'

okay ...

> The attempt to connect via PHP4 results in the mesage:
> Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server
runninglocally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?  

You seem to be using a nonstandard build of the client-side code that
expects unix_socket_directory to be "/var/run/postgresql".  You can
either change the postmaster's setting to agree, or fix the client
to look in /tmp.

            regards, tom lane