Re: error connecting to database

On 1-Oct-04, at 3:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alexander Cohen <alex@toomuchspace.com> writes:
>> Could not connect to server: permission denied.
>> Is the server running locally and accepting
>> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"
>
>> What exctly does this error message mean? What permissions is this
>> error talking about?
>
> The permissions on the socket file /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.
>
> Ordinarily the postmaster will create the socket as world-writable,
> but evidently not this time.  Perhaps you have set a nonstandard value
> for "unix_socket_permissions"?  Another possibility is that it's not
> the socket file itself, but /tmp that is mis-permissioned.

What kind of permissions does /tmp need?

Alex