[postgis-users] postgis socket name problem

[René Riech]

Hi Vincent,

maybe a stupid question, but your PostgreSQL process, the server,
is running?
What does: ps auxw | grep post
say?

I found that, regarding to your error:
http://www.revsys.com/writings/postgresql/errors.html#cannot-connect-local


With regards,

René


2011/4/30 Vincent De Groote <vdg.encelade at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm installing postgresql 8.4.8 and postgis 1.5.2 on an ubuntu computer.
> Everything is installed in a subdirectory of my home directory, using my
> standard user id (I'm not using a postgres user id)
>
> for postgresql, geos and proj, the configure / make / make check / make
> install worked without problem
> for postgis, the configure / make worked.
>
> The make check target fails because the pgsql2shp program tries to connect
> to the database using a unix socket named
> '/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432', but the server uses a socket named
> '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'.
>
> I cannot find where the socket name used by pgsql2shp comes from.
> /var/run/postgresql was never used as a parameter of configure files:  all
> configure scripts were run with --prefix=<subdir of my home dir>
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks for your reply
>
> Vincent De Groote
>
>
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