I'm not an OpenServer guy.  I'll forward to the PG Hackers List.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:01 PST
rr@caldera.com wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I am having trouble getting PostgreSQL 7.1.3 working with UNIX
> domain sockets on OpenServer 5. I can start the postmaster with
> the "-i" option to enable TCP/IP connections successfully.
> However, the default UNIX domain socket connections fail with
> the error message:
> 
> "psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Unknown error
>         Is the postmaster running locally
>         and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'?
>  createdb: database creation failed"
> 
> The named pipe referred to above has been created and the postmaster
> should be accepting connetions on it:
> 
> -rw-------   1 postgres postgres      27 Jan 29 08:41 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock
> prwxrwxrwx   1 postgres postgres       0 Jan 29 08:41 .s.PGSQL.5432
> 
> Have either of you heard or seen anything about PostgreSQL, UNIX
> domain sockets and OpenServer ? I appreciate any assistance or
> condolences you might provide.
> -rr-


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Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:12:58 -0600
Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Re: PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on OpenServer 5