Hi Christoph, On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Would that mean that restarting one instance would trigger restarting > the other instances on that machine?
Yes, indeed. [email protected] declares PartOf=postgresql.service such that when restarting postgresql.service all instances are restarted. Thanks for your attention to detail. Obviously such a circular restart triggering is not what we want here. So I guess we'd need two meta-units to implement what I am asking for. Restarting postgresql.service should continue to restart all instances. Say we were to add a postgresql-running.target and then have the postgresql-generator also generate a drop-in for that target making it [email protected] for each instance. Then other services could Require=postgresql-running.target to be restarted when any postgresql instance restarts. That said, I'm not super convinced that this is a good solution. Maybe spending more effort on the debci side is warranted. In principle, debci should work with a remote postgresql server and then no such notification can happen. Helmut
