Re: [HACKERS] flock patch breaks things here

The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So I think I have to vote in favor of leaving the socket where it is.

> Let me put my vote in...: $PGSQLHOME/run/{pgsql.pid,pgsql.pid.socket}
> Screw backwards compatibility...v6.5 becomes v7.0 *shrug*

Catching up on back email, Marc?

I think the end consensus of that thread was that we should move the
socket file to someplace safer than /tmp (exactly where being a
configure-time choice), *and* optionally put a softlink to it in /tmp
for backwards compatibility with old clients. Use of the /tmp link
would be deprecated because of possible security risks, but it could
continue to work for as long as a particular installation needed to
keep that option enabled.

Actually getting it done doesn't seem to have happened :-(. I think
we were all viewing this as part & parcel of fixing the lockfile issues,
which no one got exercised enough to do. Too many higher-priority
tasks...

regards, tom lane