Patrick Raphael wrote:
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>I figured out the problem, postmaster when run as postgres didn't have
>write permissions to /var/run/postgresql directory (where the Debian
>version puts its socket files) and therefore didn't have permission to
>open the socket. .
What Debian version of postgresql? The installation should have set the
permissions on the directory to
drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 1024 Feb 3 21:11 /var/run/postgresql
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