Change the built-in default socket directory to be /var/run/postgresql. For backwards compatibility with (probably non-libpq-based) clients that might still expect to find the socket in /tmp, also create a socket in /tmp. This is to resolve communication problems with clients operating under systemd's PrivateTmp environment, which won't be using the same global /tmp directory as the server; see bug #825448. Note that we apply the socket directory change at the level of the hard-wired defaults in the C code, not by just twiddling the setting in postgresql.conf.sample; this is so that the change will take effect on server package update, without requiring any existing postgresql.conf to be updated. (Of course, a user who dislikes this behavior can still override it via postgresql.conf.) diff -ur postgresql-16.1/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c pg_patched/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c --- postgresql-16.1/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c 2023-11-06 23:04:27.000000000 +0100 +++ pg_patched/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c 2023-12-05 12:02:46.000000000 +0100 @@ -4271,7 +4271,7 @@ GUC_LIST_INPUT | GUC_LIST_QUOTE | GUC_SUPERUSER_ONLY }, &Unix_socket_directories, - DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR, + DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR ", /tmp", NULL, NULL, NULL }, diff -ur postgresql-16.1/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c pg_patched/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c --- postgresql-16.1/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c 2023-11-06 23:04:27.000000000 +0100 +++ pg_patched/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c 2023-12-05 12:04:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ * these are indeed defaults, keep the postgresql.conf lines commented. */ conflines = replace_guc_value(conflines, "unix_socket_directories", - DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR, true); + DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR ", /tmp", true); conflines = replace_guc_value(conflines, "port", DEF_PGPORT_STR, true); diff -ur postgresql-16.1/src/include/pg_config_manual.h pg_patched/src/include/pg_config_manual.h --- postgresql-16.1/src/include/pg_config_manual.h 2023-11-06 23:04:27.000000000 +0100 +++ pg_patched/src/include/pg_config_manual.h 2023-12-05 11:45:20.000000000 +0100 @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ * support them yet. */ #ifndef WIN32 -#define DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR "/tmp" +#define DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR "/var/run/postgresql" #else #define DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR "" #endif