Hi, this is from HEAD of a few days ago, it looks suspicious to me. 8.2devel runs on port 5433. markus@katerina2:~/pgsql$ bin/psql -p 5433 template1 markus Welcome to psql 8.2devel, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help with psql commands \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query \q to quit template1=# create database test; CREATE DATABASE template1=# \c test could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? Previous connection kept Why is it trying to use 5432? Am I missing something?