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? Wha

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

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Brusser
wn to periodically clean out /tmp, /var/run, etc. Mike. > -Original Message- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Do we always need the socket file?

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 t