On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd < markmll.pgsql-gene...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote: > >> Michael Convey <smcon...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Due to policies for Red Hat family distributions, the PostgreSQL >>> installation will not be enabled for automatic start or have the database >>> initialized automatically. >>> >> >> To which policies are they referring? Licensing, security, or other?​ >>> >> >> Packaging policy: daemons shall not run merely by virtue of having been >> installed. Otherwise, if you install a boatload of software without >> checking each package, you'd have a boatload of probably-unwanted and >> possibly-incorrectly-configured daemons running. Which is a performance >> problem and likely a security hazard too. >> >> It's a good policy IMO (though I used to work there so no doubt I've just >> drunk too much Red Hat koolaid). >> > > Seems reasonable. In fact somewhat better than current KDE as in e.g. > Debian "Jessie", which embeds a copy of MySQL whether the the user wants to > use it or not. > > Ubuntu 15 Desktop enables mysqld by default. In fact, it doesn't seem to hook up with systemd in any obvious way to disable autostart. --Scott > -- > Mark Morgan Lloyd > markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk > > [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
