Re: [HACKERS] Do we always need the socket file?

2003-02-14 Thread Greg Stark
Michael Brusser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're trying to avoid creating any unnecessary files, especially outside of the product installation tree. Look at this as a policy. Experience shows that sooner or later some of your customers ask you: what is this /tmp/.s.PGSQL.xxx file is? What do

Re: [HACKERS] Do we always need the socket file?

2003-02-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Michael Brusser wrote: I have Postgres 7.2.1 configured to listen on TCP/IP port. When the server starts up it still creates the socket file in /tmp. Removing this file manually does not seem to cause any problem for the application. Is there a way to prevent postmaster from creating this