| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 05:57:02 |
| Message-ID: | 200101290557.AAA12120@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > No one has suggested a location non-root people can put the socket/lock
> > file, except /tmp, and IMHO, until we find one, the default stays in
> > /tmp.
>
> Since RPM's _must_ be installed by root, that doesn't affect them. The
> debian packages are the same way. As long as the RPM contains the
> structures set as owned by 'postgres' (the default run user for
> postmaster), and the appropriate permissions are set, the directory
> could be anywhere, such as /var/run/pgsql. But there are of course
> problems with that approach, because libpq makes some hard-coded
> assumptions about where to look.
The issue we have is that we don't assume root installs. Any root
requirement is going to be RPM-specific.
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