Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Florent Guillaume <efgeor(at)noos(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone
Date: 2001-01-28 23:54:18
Message-ID: 200101282354.SAA15528@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Perhaps there could be some sort of /etc/postgresql.conf file that is read
> > by both client and server that can control these sort of aspects.
>
> Maybe ... but it seems to me that still leaves us with the issue of
> a single pathname that must be known a-priori to both client and server.
> You've just changed that path from "/tmp/..." to "/etc/...".

And writing to /etc requires root permissions. That is the restriction
that got us into /tmp in the first place.

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