Lamar Owen wrote:
>Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm. Where are you invoking psql from, and is it the same one you
>> compiled yourself?
>
>> ISTR that the Debian RPMs use a nonstandard location of the pgsql Unix
>> socket file, which means that an RPM psql will NOT talk to a standard
>> compilation of the postmaster, nor vice versa.
>
>Um, the Debian packages are .deb's, not RPM's. Is the standard socket
>location not /tmp? That's where the RPM's put it. I don't know about
>the DEB's -- ask Oliver.
No. /var/run/postgresql - it was necessary to move them, because long-open
sockets were being deleted from /tmp (it is, after all, a _temporary_
directory) by tmpreaper.
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