Re: Ability to listen on two unix sockets

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Honza Horak <hhorak(at)redhat(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ability to listen on two unix sockets
Date: 2012-06-09 21:43:53
Message-ID: 1339278233.5751.19.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On ons, 2012-06-06 at 11:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not really in favor of making /var/run be the out-of-the-box
> default, because it would discriminate against personal/testing
> installations (ie, you couldn't set it up without root privileges).
> It's a reasonable choice for distro-provided packages, but not so
> much for one-off builds --- think about the buildfarm if nothing else.
>
> Having said that, if we made it easier to configure things that way
> than by patching the source, I bet Martin Pitt isn't going to object.
>
We already have the ability to configure the Unix socket directory in
postgresql.conf. All you need to do is turn that into a list.
>

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