On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:05:17PM +0100, Peter Kovacs wrote: > Thank you Stephen for trying to answer my concern in substance! > > My (possibly naiv) interpretation of the Sun document referenced in my > mail is that the command "/lib/svc/method/postgresql start" will be > run as "postgres" and if so, this arrangement has the same deficency > as my original SMF attempt (described in my message starting the > thread on the referenced PostgreSQL mail list) -- that is pg_start > (called in /lib/svc/method/postgresql in the Sun document) is run as > "postgres". pg_start itself will spawn the "top level" postmaster > process whereas in Tom Lane's example the initial postmaster process > is started (directly) by root (or daemon or whatever identity the > Linux startup scripts are started with -- I am not entirely sure about > this detail). Admittedly, I am just a casual user of SMF, so I may > miss here some important detail.
That post you quoted said: "If the start script is written in a way that creates multiple levels of postgres-owned processes, you should fix it. On Linux something like this works: ..." The SMF start method shouldn't do that, and from what I can see, it in fact does not. So what's the issue? Did something actually break? Nico --
