Re: non-root installation of Postgresql?

Hi !

Did you start postmaster with -i switch ?

BR, aarni



On Thursday 02 May 2002 03:34 pm, you wrote:
> Hi, I used ./configure --prefix=/home/metaperl/install/pgsql to
> install postgres and then I did initdb and createdb and started the
> postmaster just fine.
>
> However, attempting to connect via psql is failing with this error
> message:
>
> urth:~/install/pgsql> ./bin/psql test metaperl
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>     Is the server running locally and accepting
>     connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> urth:~/install/pgsql>
> urth:~/install/pgsql>
>
> I looked around for a way to force sockets to be created in /tmp or in
> my home directory but saw nothing in the manual.
>
>
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