would seem that PostgreSQL is now bundled with OSX, and the upgrade process appears to have
caused some issues with my previous version.
The problem is this: I'd try to connect to PostgreSQL via the unix socket during (python
manage.py syncdb), and I'd get the following error:
psycopg2.OperationalError: could not connect to server: Permission denied Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
After a little trial and error the following seems to work reliably.
- Edit PostgreSQL's config to define the unix_socket_directory setting: (for me this was line 68)
$ sudo vim /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/data/postgresql.conf
In my case I changed the setting to unix_socket_directory = '/var/pgsql_socket/'.
- Exceute the following commands.
$ sudo dscl . append /Groups/_postgres GroupMembership postgres $ sudo chmod g+w,o+rx /var/pgsql_socket/
And finally restart PostgreSQL to apply the config changes:
$ sudo -u postgres /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/bin/pg_ctl -D /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/data/ restart
