i concure with this. On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote: > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 20:10:58 -0500 > From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Thomas T. Thai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ryan Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Adriaan Joubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: NetBSD/Alpha and PostgreSQL-current [was Re: NetBSD/Alpha > and rkirkpat's patch] > > "Thomas T. Thai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >
