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

Tom Lane wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, does Debian enforce a nonstandard location for
>X sockets as well?

X has a big exception made for it in the FHS for /usr/X11R6; I don't see
any mention of how /tmp/.X11/ is to be treated, but X isn't my problem!
I suspect no-one has ever thought to ask the question! You may be
pleased to know that I have now stirred the coals and asked that
question, which applies not only to X but also to several other programs
that I have running.

It seems to me that the main reason for the problem is the need to
cater for non-root installs. I would really like to know what
proportion of total PostgreSQL installs they now are. We are
a long way now from the days when Postgres was a research database with
a poor reputation for reliability. It is now becoming a serious
competitor to major commercial databases and will in many cases be
used as a major application on the machines where it is installed.

Are there still people who can only install PostgreSQL as a private
application?

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