Re: Is it possible to control the location of the lock file when starting postgres?

On 7/19/2016 3:35 PM, Steve Langlois wrote:
>
> >Presumably, you are working with a distro-modified version of Postgres,
>
> >because the stock sources don't use /var/run/postgresql as a socket
> >directory. You will likely find that your version of libpq.so also
> >expects /var/run/postgresql as the socket directory, so you won't be
> >able to make non-TCP connections without explicitly specifying /tmp
> >(or wherever you choose to put the socket) as the host location.
>
> Using the following fromsudo yum install postgresql-server
> postgresql-contrib
>
> postgresql-server-9.2.15-1.el7_2.x86_64
> postgresql-contrib-9.2.15-1.el7_2.x86_64
> postgresql-9.2.15-1.el7_2.x86_64
> postgresql-libs-9.2.15-1.el7_2.x86_64

then why not start it with systemctl ? its already setup as a system
service.

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