Re: pg_dump cannot connect when executing by a script

In response to Luca Ferrari :
> Hi all,
> I've found in the net a lot of problems similar to mine, but not the solution
> for my case: when I executed pg_dump against a database from a script (that
> will be executed by cron) I got the following error:
>
> pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "webcalendardb" failed: could
> not connect to server: No such file or directory
>         Is the server running locally and accepting
>         connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Your unix-scket isn't in /tmp.

Start psql -h localhost and type:

show unix_socket_directory;

This will show you the corrent path to the unix-socket. You can use that
for pg_dump with option -h </path/to/the/socket-dir>


Regards, Andreas
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