From: | "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg_dump cannot connect when executing by a script |
Date: | 2010-05-25 11:13:40 |
Message-ID: | 20100525111340.GC25341@a-kretschmer.de |
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In response to Luca Ferrari :
> Hi all,
> I've found in the net a lot of problems similar to mine, but not the solution
> for my case: when I executed pg_dump against a database from a script (that
> will be executed by cron) I got the following error:
>
> pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "webcalendardb" failed: 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.5432"?
Your unix-scket isn't in /tmp.
Start psql -h localhost and type:
show unix_socket_directory;
This will show you the corrent path to the unix-socket. You can use that
for pg_dump with option -h </path/to/the/socket-dir>
Regards, Andreas
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