On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> It sounds to me like bobbyw might have two separate installations of
> postgres (or at least two copies of psql), one compiled with /tmp as the
> default socket location and one compiled with /var/run/postgresql as the
> default. /tmp is the out-of-the-box default but I think Debian likes to
> build it with /var/run/postgresql as the default.
It looked like the actual DBT-5 harness is built with "system
libraries" (libpqxx, linked to system libpq, with debian's
/var/run/postgresql), but the scaffolding around it uses a "local"
postgres (server and psql) using the source default of /tmp?
a.
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