From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Exposing an installation's default value of unix_socket_directory |
Date: | 2010-10-21 20:19:42 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTin6rBW2=B0zepiQ+DYbxdLEi1A=4Zj_8AgOU8mu@mail.gmail.com |
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2010/10/21 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Excerpts from Cédric Villemain's message of jue oct 21 16:01:30 -0300 2010:
>>> I agree this is interesting information to get, but wonder how
>>> pg_config can know that and it looks to me that this information as
>>> nothing to do in pg_config....
>>>
>>> pg_config is all about installation, socket_dir is a postgresql.conf setting.
>
>> Yeah -- how is pg_config to know? All it can tell you is what was the
>> compiled-in default.
>
> That's what I wanted, actually. If you've set a non-default value in
> postgresql.conf, SHOW will tell you about that, but it fails to expose
> the default value.
>
>> Maybe you should go the SHOW route. The user could connect via TCP and
>> find out the socket directory that way.
>
> Yeah, the SHOW case is not useless by any means.
I think adding this to pg_config is sensible. Sure, the user could
have moved the socket directory. But it's a place to start looking.
So why not?
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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