Re: [HACKERS] flock patch breaks things here

On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > either way, moving the pid file (or
> > socket, for that matter) from /tmp should be listed as a security related
> > requirement for v6.4 :)
>
> Huh? There is no pid file being generated in /tmp (or anywhere else)
> at the moment. If we do add one, it should not go into /tmp for the
> reasons I gave before.
>
> Where the Unix-domain socket file lives is an entirely separate issue.
>
> If we move the socket out of /tmp then we have just kicked away all the
> work we did to preserve backwards compatibility of the FE/BE protocol
> with existing clients. Being able to talk to a 1.0 client isn't much
> good if you aren't listening where he's going to try to contact you.
> 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*

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org