Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone
Date: 2001-01-29 04:39:56
Message-ID: 200101290439.XAA07237@candle.pha.pa.us
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> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > The bottom line: yes, /tmp was a poor choice of place to put the
> > > socket files. But no, it is not so poor as to be worth creating a
> >
> > Was it really a poor choice. Where else can we put it as non-root?
>
> ~pgsql/var/run? everything else was under that directory structure ...

Sure, but how do we hard-code where ~pgsql is located, unless we somehow
check the home directory of pgsql, but then again, they really don't
have to use the home directory of pgsql for the pgsql directory.

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