Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Perhaps there could be some sort of /etc/postgresql.conf file that is read
> > by both client and server that can control these sort of aspects.
> 
> Maybe ... but it seems to me that still leaves us with the issue of
> a single pathname that must be known a-priori to both client and server.
> You've just changed that path from "/tmp/..." to "/etc/...".

And writing to /etc requires root permissions.  That is the restriction
that got us into /tmp in the first place.

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