I am trying to run the latest version (supping source daily) and I get the
following error when I run psql.

Connection to database 'darcy' failed.
connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting connections at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'?

Have I missed some change that I have to make?  This is on the same
system as the server.

TIA.

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http://www.druid.net/darcy/                |  and a sheep voting on
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Sat, 10 Jan 1998 09:19:33 -0500 (EST)
darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Can't run current PostgreSQL
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> I am trying to run the latest version (supping source daily) and I get the
> following error when I run psql.
> 
> Connection to database 'darcy' failed.
> connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting connections at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'?
> 
> Have I missed some change that I have to make?  This is on the same
> system as the server.

	New default startup disabled TCP/IP connections, using Unix Domain Sockets
exclusively.  If PGHOST/PGPORT are set, then the "frontends" try to use TCP/IP
vs Unix Domain, and will therefore fail.  To get the old behaviour, startup
postmaster with the -i option to turn TCP/IP connections back on again...


Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 


Sat, 10 Jan 1998 14:45:36 -0400 (AST)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: [HACKERS] Can't run current PostgreSQL
> 
> I am trying to run the latest version (supping source daily) and I get the
> following error when I run psql.
> 
> Connection to database 'darcy' failed.
> connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting connections at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'?
> 
> Have I missed some change that I have to make?  This is on the same
> system as the server.

I have seen cases since the password changes that the postmaster does
not start properly.  If I start it from a script, it failes, but if I
start it from the command line or gdb, it works.

Haven't figured out why yet.

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

Sat, 10 Jan 1998 17:45:10 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] Can't run current PostgreSQL