Re: Select works only when connected from login postgres

Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
To: Joseph Brenner <doomvox@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2016-12-04T15:06:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
On 12/03/2016 09:38 PM, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>> So is the 9.4 instance the production/live database?
>
> Essentially, but it's not heavily used: this is me messing around on a dev box.
>
>> So what happens when you specify the port in your psql connection, eg:
>> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql --dbname=doom --username=doom -p 5432
>> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql --dbname=doom --username=doom -p 5433
>> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql --dbname=doom --username=doom -p 5434
>
> With /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql, only "-p 5433" connects, the
> other two complain like so:
>
>   psql: 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.5434"?
>

Alright how about?:

/usr/bin/psql --dbname=doom --username=doom -p 5434

My suspicion is that when you did the source build you got some cross 
contamination of libraries.

If it where me I would get rid of the instance that you built from 
source, assuming that there is nothing important on it.



-- 
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com


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