| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone |
| Date: | 2001-01-29 03:46:08 |
| Message-ID: | 12023.980739968@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> Just curious here ... there seems to have been *alot* of energy expended
> on this ... is there any reason why we don't just have a configuration
> option like other software has, that defaults to /tmp like we have it now,
> but that makes it easier for others to change it for their installs, as
> required?
We *have* such a configuration option, both compile-time and run-time,
as of 7.1. The argument is about what the default should be, and in
particular whether it's a good idea for certain binary distributions to
have a different default than other distributions ...
regards, tom lane
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