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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
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Re: Mark Steben 2018-10-02 <CADyzmyw66x_SgxR=gX+RddQaBgHWVVW=eyNO2w_iygewF+piDw@mail.gmail.com>
> *psql -U postgres prime_production -p 5433 *
> *psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory*
> *        Is the server running locally and accepting*
> *        connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5433"?*
> 
> I have changed the UNIX_SOCKET_DIRECTORIES to something other than /tmp
> because we have another instance pointing to that directory. I restarted
> postgres.  Didn't help.  I have attached our 3 config files along with an
> ls -la listing of our database cluster directory.  Any insights welcome.

You can use "psql -h /database/prime_data/PSQL_94/tmp" to use that
socket directory.

In practise, that will fail for any user than the cluster owner
because that is inside your PGDATA, and that is 0700.

Christoph