Bill Moseley <moseley@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Hum. lsof knows about the file. > > $ lsof -p 1512 | grep /var/run > postmaste 1512 postgres 4u unix 0xf78b5980 1631 /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432 > > > Any ideas what happened to the socket? Maybe something in your bootup process tried to clean up /var/run and deleted it after the postmaster had started? > I had to stop and start the postmaster to get the socket back. Be interesting to see if you can reproduce it... -Doug