"Tille, Andreas" <TilleA(at)rki(dot)de> writes:
> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
> Is the postmaster running locally
> and accepting connections on Unix socket '/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432'?
That's not the usual location for a PG socket file. How did you tell
psql to look there, and are you sure the postmaster thinks the same?
(If there's a socket file present in /tmp rather than
/var/run/postgresql, it's a strong tipoff that you've gotten this
wrong...)
regards, tom lane