pg_ctl start error and lock file

[Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Faced following issue when trying to start database using pg_ctl:

FATAL:  could not create lock file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": Permission denied

Accidentally someone cleaned up /tmp and recreated it but without any write permissions to non-root user, if the non-root user write permissions are given to /tmp then it would start without any issues.
 

I was going thru some links and could find following (> 9+ years old thread):

http://compgroups.net/comp.postgresql.general/postgres-start-error/2886274

Is there any way to control where the lock file can be created?

Regards...