Re: Ability to listen on two unix sockets

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Ability to listen on two unix sockets
Date: 2012-06-09 22:09:30
Message-ID: 1339279770.5751.21.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On lör, 2012-06-09 at 23:45 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Saturday, June 09, 2012 11:43:53 PM Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > 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.
> That doesn't help libpq using clients.

There is no mandate here to do anything about that.

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