Re: DBT-5 & Postgres 9.0.3

On 8/17/2011 10:29 AM, bobbyw wrote:
> Hi, I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to chime in since I am having
> problems with this as well.
>
> I too am trying to run dbt5 against Postgres. Specifically I am trying to
> run it against Postgres 9.1beta3.
>
> After jumping through many hoops I ultimately was able to build dbt5 on my
> debian environment, but when I attempt to run the benchmark with:
>
> dbt5-run-workload -a pgsql -c 5000 -t 5000 -d 60 -u 1 -i ~/dbt5-0.1.0/egen
> -f 500 -w 300 -n dbt5 -p 5432 -o /tmp/results
>
> it runs to completion but all of the dbt5 log files contain errors like:
>
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'pqxx::broken_connection'
> what(): could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket
> "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
> I'm lead to believe that this is an error I would receive if the Postgres db
> were not running, but it is. In fact, the way dbt5-run-workload works it
> starts the database automatically. I have also confirmed it is running by
> manually connecting while this benchmark is in progress (and after it has
> already started the database and logged the above error).
>
> Any thoughts on why I might be getting this error?
>
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>

Its trying to connect to unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432",

but your postgresql.conf file probably has:
unix_socket_directory = '/tmp'

Change it to:
unix_socket_directory = '/var/run/postgresql'

and restart PG.

-Andy