Postgres could not connect to server: No such file or directory!

Posted June 7, 2013

createuser: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket “/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432”?

This is the error which i get when i tried to createuser in postgres!

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randyhaupt • June 8, 2013

I’m not familiar with pgsql but maybe this helps: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869080