> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > The bottom line: yes, /tmp was a poor choice of place to put the
> > > socket files. But no, it is not so poor as to be worth creating a
> >
> > Was it really a poor choice. Where else can we put it as non-root?
>
> ~pgsql/var/run? everything else was under that directory structure ...
Sure, but how do we hard-code where ~pgsql is located, unless we somehow
check the home directory of pgsql, but then again, they really don't
have to use the home directory of pgsql for the pgsql directory.
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