On Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:09:30 AM Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On lör, 2012-06-09 at 23:45 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > > On Saturday, June 09, 2012 11:43:53 PM Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > On ons, 2012-06-06 at 11:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > I'm not really in favor of making /var/run be the out-of-the-box > > > > default, because it would discriminate against personal/testing > > > > installations (ie, you couldn't set it up without root privileges). > > > > It's a reasonable choice for distro-provided packages, but not so > > > > much for one-off builds --- think about the buildfarm if nothing > > > > else. > > > > > > > > Having said that, if we made it easier to configure things that way > > > > than by patching the source, I bet Martin Pitt isn't going to object. > > > > > > We already have the ability to configure the Unix socket directory in > > > postgresql.conf. All you need to do is turn that into a list. > > That doesn't help libpq using clients. > There is no mandate here to do anything about that. Well, Martin Pitt/the debian package is patching exactly that. Youre saying that everything that needs to be done to make that easier is to make unix_socket_dir a list. So there seems to be some disparity there ;)
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