Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> writes:
> Now, I don't know that the server is accepting connections, but
> srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2006-01-21 14:53 /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432=
> exists as a socket.
> What do I do to trace the source of this problem and fix it?
That's got the wrong ownership (should be postgres not root) and
the wrong permissions (should be world-writable). Did somebody
do something silly like chown everything in /tmp?
You could manually fix the socket file's ownership and permissions,
or just remove it and restart the postmaster.
regards, tom lane