Re: [HACKERS] flock patch breaks things here

> >
> > On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, David Gould wrote:
> >
> > > Also, before sprinkling files all over it is good to try to conform
> > > to the FHS (File Hierarchy Standard) (see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/)
> > > which is pretty easy to do and likely to make life easier later.
> >
> > I just downloaded and skim'd the fhs notes, and it looks
> > reasonable...but, other then the current socket in /tmp, we don't
> > "splinkle files all over"...do we? *raised eyebrow*
> >
>
> Well, perhaps not, thay might have been hyperbole, but I wanted to head it
> off before it happened.
>
> Also, what about moving the socket to the PG_DATA dir and then creating a
> symlink to it in /tmp for older clients. New installations could optionally
> not create (or remove) the symlink...

But then we have to compile the data directory into the client, or add
an option to specify the unix domain socket AND the data directory. Not
worth it, I think.

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