No that is not normal.
Set the environment variable  pghost to something that will Connect to a pgsql database. Pgport and pguser might need to bet set as well. Slony has required this for as long as I can remember.

From: devrim at gunduz.org
To: slony1-hackers at lists.slony.info
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:05:19 +0000
Subject: [Slony1-hackers] Doc builds wants to connect a database

 
Hi,
 
I'm seeing this:
 
http://devrim.privatepaste.com/689e681074
 
Is this normal/expected?
 
Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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