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