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.
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