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