Re: Mark Steben 2018-10-02 <CADyzmyw66x_SgxR=gX+RddQaBgHWVVW=eyNO2w_iygewF+piDw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > *psql -U postgres prime_production -p 5433 * > *psql: 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.5433"?* > > I have changed the UNIX_SOCKET_DIRECTORIES to something other than /tmp > because we have another instance pointing to that directory. I restarted > postgres. Didn't help. I have attached our 3 config files along with an > ls -la listing of our database cluster directory. Any insights welcome. You can use "psql -h /database/prime_data/PSQL_94/tmp" to use that socket directory. In practise, that will fail for any user than the cluster owner because that is inside your PGDATA, and that is 0700. Christoph