Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Since I cannot start the postmaster I cannot run pg_dumpall. As far as I can tell you *are* starting the postmaster, and it is responding when you query it via TCP (eg, with "psql -h localhost"). What is not working is connections via the Unix socket. I still suspect that the problem there is that the postmaster is creating the socket file somewhere other than /tmp, but your client library thinks /tmp is where to look. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general