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 -x 'cscope*' postgresql-16beta1/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c postgresql16_socket_patch/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c --- postgresql-16beta1/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c 2023-05-22 23:08:08.000000000 +0200 +++ postgresql16_socket_patch/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c 2023-06-01 09:39:24.000000000 +0200 @@ -4300,7 +4300,7 @@ GUC_LIST_INPUT | GUC_LIST_QUOTE | GUC_SUPERUSER_ONLY }, &Unix_socket_directories, - DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR, + DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR ", /tmp", NULL, NULL, NULL }, diff -ur -x 'cscope*' postgresql-16beta1/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c postgresql16_socket_patch/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c --- postgresql-16beta1/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c 2023-05-22 23:08:08.000000000 +0200 +++ postgresql16_socket_patch/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c 2023-06-01 09:42:16.000000000 +0200 @@ -1291,7 +1291,7 @@ * 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 -x 'cscope*' postgresql-16beta1/src/include/pg_config_manual.h postgresql16_socket_patch/src/include/pg_config_manual.h --- postgresql-16beta1/src/include/pg_config_manual.h 2023-05-22 23:08:08.000000000 +0200 +++ postgresql16_socket_patch/src/include/pg_config_manual.h 2023-06-01 09:43:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -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