Creating socket in /tmp is silly, but unfortunately it's default location, so many clients expect it. Thus we preconfigure PostgreSQL to create socket both in /run/postgresql and /tmp. --- a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample +++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ #port = 5432 # (change requires restart) #max_connections = 100 # (change requires restart) #superuser_reserved_connections = 3 # (change requires restart) -#unix_socket_directories = '/tmp' # comma-separated list of directories +unix_socket_directories = '/run/postgresql,/tmp' # comma-separated list of directories # (change requires restart) #unix_socket_group = '' # (change requires restart) #unix_socket_permissions = 0777 # begin with 0 to use octal notation