| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone |
| Date: | 2001-01-29 06:44:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20526.980750681@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> But my issue is that libpq or any other client should be smart enough to
> not have to assume the location.
Er, how do you propose to do that? The client cannot learn the correct
location from the postmaster --- it must figure out *on its own* where
the socket file is. AFAICS you can't avoid having hardwired knowledge
about how to do that in the client.
You or somebody else previously suggested hardwiring the location of
a configuration file, rather than the socketfile itself, but I can't
see that that really improves matters in this context. In particular,
changing to such a method would still break backwards compatibility.
regards, tom lane
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