[postgis-users] postgis socket name problem

[Nico Mandery]

Hi Vincent,

you might want to try passing the following options to pgsql2shp:

pgsql2shp -h /tmp/ -p 5432 ...

Nico

Am 02.05.2011 13:12, schrieb Vincent De Groote:
> Hello,
>
> Yes, the Postgresql server is running.  This really seems to be a
> socket name problem: 
>
> - the server created the "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" socket
> - pgsql2shp tries to connect using '/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432'
>
> If I create a link from /var/run/postgresql -> /tmp, pgsql2shp
> connects successfully.
>
> The pgsql2shp program seems to connect to the database using a
> standard postgresql api call, so I don't understand how this can happen.
> I searched a hardcoded string '/var/run/postgresql' in the postgresql
> sources, but I didn't find it.
>
> Vincent


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