Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> It would probably be better if the socket files weren't in /tmp but in
> a postgres-owned directory. However, at this point we have a huge
> backwards compatibility problem to overcome if we want to move the
> socket files.
Not to sound scheptical, but since when did postgresql care about
backwards compatiblity? Upgrading is already demanding a lot of
knowledge from the user (including needing such information, which
almost no other package do), this is just a minor change (the files
are mostly used by bundled tools - any exceptions?)
> There is an option in 7.1 to support defining a different directory
> for the socket files, but I doubt very many people will use it.
I intend to, for the RPMs we ship.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.