Re: NetBSD/Alpha and PostgreSQL-current [was Re: NetBSD/Alpha and rkirkpat's patch]

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>, Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net>, Adriaan Joubert <a.joubert@albourne.com>, Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@albourne.com>
Date: 2000-12-31T01:10:58Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-general
"Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
>         Is the postmaster running locally
>         and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.0'?

Hmm, do you have an environment definition for PGPORT?

I notice that pg_regress.sh contains

	export PGPORT

but it doesn't necessarily set any value for PGPORT.  It seems possible
that some shells may take this as license to invent an empty-string
value for PGPORT, which would cause libpq to think that port 0 is being
specified.

My feeling is that libpq ought to ignore an empty-string PGPORT
environment value, rather than treat it as selecting port 0.
Comments anyone?

			regards, tom lane