Re: Connect to specific cluster on command line

On Wed, 2022-05-25 at 16:48 +0200, Carsten Klein wrote:
> So, forget about the packager. With core PostgreSQL tools it is possible 
> to have more than one cluster. How do you specify what cluster to 
> connect to with psql or pg_dump? Do I have to specify the cluster's 
> corresponding Unix domain socket directory via the --host option?

With -h you specify the directory containing the socket, and
with -p (port) the name.

So you could

  psql -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5555

to use the socket /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5555

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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