Re: Is it possible to control the location of the lock file when starting postgres?

>Presumably, you are working with a distro-modified version of Postgres,

>because the stock sources don't use /var/run/postgresql as a socket
>directory.  You will likely find that your version of libpq.so also
>expects /var/run/postgresql as the socket directory, so you won't be
>able to make non-TCP connections without explicitly specifying /tmp
>(or wherever you choose to put the socket) as the host location.

Using the following fromsudo yum install postgresql-server postgresql-contrib

postgresql-server-9.2.15-1.el7_2.x86_64

postgresql-contrib-9.2.15-1.el7_2.x86_64

postgresql-9.2.15-1.el7_2.x86_64

postgresql-libs-9.2.15-1.el7_2.x86_64

then why not start it with systemctl  ?  its already setup as a system service.

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