On Wednesday, December 2, 2020, Atul Kumar <akumar14...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot Tom, I appended the -h /tmp and it worked. > > I need just one more help from you. > > Could you tell me that why & how that socket file existed in /tmp > directory. > Because the server was configured that way: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-connection.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CONNECTION-SETTINGS See: unix_socket_directories Thing is, the client code doesn’t read the postgresql.conf configuration file - it just knows its own compile-time default. For some reason, your client in one mode was compiled using a different default than the server on the same machine. From which we infer you have two client installs on your machine, each compiled using different defaults. David J.
