Re: PHP's pg_connect() and non-standard location of the socket (was: REPOST: redefining location of the socket file /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> writes:
> >> They're not, unless you tell them, which is why runtime setting of the
> >> parameter isn't all that useful IMHO.  But some people wanted it, so
> >> there it is.
>
> > Hmm...  How would I tell that to `psql'?  Via "-v" parameter?
>
> IIRC, a hostname parameter that starts with '/' is now interpreted as
> a socket path.  So you'd do psql -h /path/to/something, or set PGHOST,
> to inform the client about a nonstandard socket location.
>
> $ psql -h /nowhere -p 7654
> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
>         Is the postmaster running locally
>         and accepting connections on Unix socket '/nowhere/.s.PGSQL.7654'?

Cool!  Thanks a lot.  Just changed the location of the socket to
/var/run, and my PHP script was able to connect using "host=/var/run"
string.

Thanks very much once more.
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Arcady Genkin
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