Re: pg_dump fails with socket_not_open

Sarah Ewen <sarah@thaum.net> writes:
>> Is this repeatable?  What shows up in the postmaster's log when it
>> happens?  What platform is this on, and what version of Postgres?

> This is postgresql-7.4.6-1.FC2.2 running on RedHat Fedora Core 2.

> The logs don't reveal anything, and it happens consistently!

The 7.4 RPMs' startup script sends the postmaster stderr to /dev/null
:-(.  To find out what the server sees as the problem, you need to
either hack the startup script to send stderr someplace more useful,
or adjust the configuration to send the postmaster's log messages to
syslog.  I would recommend doing one or the other since it's quite
likely that the server-side view of the problem is different from what
the client sees.

> It is a little disconcerting..by the sounds of things this is a fairly
> rare thing to see?

Yes.  I would like to get to the bottom of it.

            regards, tom lane