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

Posted on June 7, 2013
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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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I’m not familiar with pgsql but maybe this helps: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869080

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