Re: PSA: Systemd will kill PostgreSQL

On 16 August 2016 at 08:33, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > On 08/15/2016 05:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Well, yeah, it's easy to fix once you know you need to do so. The
> >> complaint is basically that out-of-the-box, it's broken, and it's
> >> not very clear what was gained by breaking it.
>
> > You're welcome to argue with Lennart about that.
>
> Hah! I can think of more pleasant ways of wasting my time.
> <http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers>
>

I tried to ask on that bug for some more clarity on what exactly a "system
account" was, where this behaviour was documented, whether it should really
determine the system account uid threshold at COMPILE TIME by reading
login.defs from configure (!), etc.

I just got a "take it to the mailing list" sort of dismissal. I'd rather
stick my hand in a meat grinder than post to the systemd mailing list,
especially given the way the prior discussion on the topic went based on
the archives, so I left it at that.

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