On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 11:44 +0200, Filip Rembiałkowski wrote: > > is the server running (see process list, ps ax | grep postgres) > does the socket file exist? (see filesystem, ls -l /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432) Since you say things work for several days, then stop -- make sure there's no braindead automated cleanup of /tmp that is removing /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 > > it's possible that the client tries to connect via non-existing > socket. it happens when server config is different from compiled-in > defaults for socket location. > > in this case try to connect via TCP, this should help