2010/10/21 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > I just noticed that there doesn't seem to be any good way of finding > out what a postmaster's default value of unix_socket_directory is. > If you try to SHOW it you just get an empty string. We could probably > fix things so that SHOW exposes the actual setting, but (1) there might > be security arguments against that, and (2) if your problem is that you > would like to find out the value so's you can connect to said > postmaster, SHOW isn't going to help you. > > One possible response would be to add an item to what pg_config knows > about, eg "pg_config --socketdir". This doesn't answer every possible > use-case either, but it would be helpful for some scenarios. > > Thoughts?
I agree this is interesting information to get, but wonder how pg_config can know that and it looks to me that this information as nothing to do in pg_config.... pg_config is all about installation, socket_dir is a postgresql.conf setting. I'd prefer a 'pg_ctl status' output. > > regards, tom lane > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > -- Cédric Villemain 2ndQuadrant http://2ndQuadrant.fr/ PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers