Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 02:52:28PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> a feature. It would be completely inappropriate for us as upstream to >> destroy that property, and my fundamental objection to what Debian >> has done is that they've destroyed that property at the distro level.
> The default postgresql.conf in Debian contains a line like this: > unix_socket_directory = '/var/run/postgresql' > I don't understand what restriction you mean. What was changed is the > default location of the unix domain socket. If you still want it in > /tmp, you can put it there. Not as easily as all that, because the system copy of libpq.so has the other directory hard-wired into it. Yes, you can sort of make it work if you have to, but it's inconvenient and error-prone. > I think there are basicly two reasons to move it: > - It's insecure, as this thread shows > - The FHS says the they should be placed in /var/run/, probably > for the first reason. We've had that discussion before. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate