Re: [BUGS] Bug #882: Cannot manually log in to database.

2003-01-28 Thread Kinsey, Ben
EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BUGS] Bug #882: Cannot manually log in to database. Giles Lean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Either teach your /tmp cleaner not to clean out the socket files as > Tom Lane suggested, or arrange to update the socket timestamps. I

Re: [BUGS] Bug #882: Cannot manually log in to database.

2003-01-24 Thread Tom Lane
Giles Lean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> utimes("/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432", (const struct timeval *) 0); >> >> Hm, do you think that's portable? > Hm ... yes, actually I do. I use it on HP-UX, and testing indicates > that it works on FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD and Tru64 as well. > Thinking about it, a

Re: [BUGS] Bug #882: Cannot manually log in to database.

2003-01-24 Thread Giles Lean
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Giles Lean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > utimes("/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432", (const struct timeval *) 0); > > Hm, do you think that's portable? Hm ... yes, actually I do. I use it on HP-UX, and testing indicates that it works on FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD and

Re: [BUGS] Bug #882: Cannot manually log in to database.

2003-01-24 Thread Tom Lane
"Kinsey, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a little more detail as to how this socket file was getting deleted: > On the system I'm using, if you attempt to start postmaster when an instance > of it is already running, the socket file gets deleted. It was discovered > that upon bootup of t

Re: [BUGS] Bug #882: Cannot manually log in to database.

2003-01-24 Thread Tom Lane
Giles Lean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Either teach your /tmp cleaner not to clean out the socket files as > Tom Lane suggested, or arrange to update the socket timestamps. I > think it's easier to just keep updating the timestamps -- then I don't > have to educate each new system administrator.

Re: [BUGS] Bug #882: Cannot manually log in to database.

2003-01-24 Thread Giles Lean
[ Where *did* that Reply-To: line come from -- it's broken ... repl: bad addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; -- extraneous semi-colon ] > Stopping and starting the postmaster daemon clears up this problem, > but this problem creeps up about 2 times a week, and is a major > annoyance. Either

Re: [BUGS] Bug #882: Cannot manually log in to database.

2003-01-23 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > okapview# /opt/pgsql-7.1.3/bin/psql -U postgres -d AppliedView > psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory > Is the postmaster running locally > and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'? > Stopping and sta