The other possibility is that you need to build psycopg2 from scratch and set the pg_config option in setup.cfg. I have to do this with the brew build of pg because the socket is elsewhere
On Apr 19, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Russell Keith-Magee <russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > On Friday, 20 April 2012 at 6:04 AM, Zach wrote: >> Hi I am trying to setup a PostgreSQL database for Heroku. I am running >> into trouble. >> >> I installed PostgreSQL(9.0) from EnterpriseDB on OS X 10.6. However, >> when I do a simple >> >> $ psql -U postgres >> >> I get this error message. >> >> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory >> Is the server running locally and accepting >> connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL. >> 5432"? >> >> I am getting the same message when I do a syncdb. >> >> Any ideas what could be causing this. Thank you so much! >> > Well, the error message asks you: >> Is the server running locally and accepting >> connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL. >> 5432"? > > > > Is it? I'm going to go out on a limb and say "No, it isn't". > > Just because you've installed Postgres doesn't *necessarily* mean you've > started the Postgres server. If the server isn't running, you won't be able > to connect to the server, which is what psql (and syncdb) is trying to do. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
