Re: permission denied on socket

On 1/25/24 12:22, Atul Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have postgres 13 running on centos 7.
> 
> I am facing an issue while trying to connect the cluster using the below 
> command.
> 
> -bash-4.2$ psql postgres
> 
> psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: 
> Permission denied

With the Postgres server running does:

/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432

exist?

> 
> Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket?
> 
> 
> but when I am trying to connect using the below command I am able to 
> login to the cluster successfully.
> 
> -bash-4.2$ psql postgres -h localhost
> 
> postgres=#

The above works because you are not connecting to local(the socket), but 
to localhost(127.0.0.1 or ::1).

> 
> 
> I am not sure what is causing this issue and what needs to be done to 
> resolve it ?

Best guess is you are using a version of psql that is expecting the 
socket to be somewhere else then where it actually is.

> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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