Bug#919385: postgresql-common: alter system set port ignored by pg-commands

2019-02-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Control: tag -1 moreinfo Re: wim 2019-01-15 <154755510710.20704.3906668621163200728.reportbug@zwerfkat> > 1. connect with psql to your local instance > 2. use alter system to set the port to a non default port > 3. restart postgresql > 4. you will notice that pg_lsclusters still lists the old port

Bug#919385: postgresql-common: alter system set port ignored by pg-commands

2019-02-26 Thread Wim Bertels
> But in actual practise, there is a problem, postgresql.auto.conf is > stored inside PGDATA, which is not readable by anyone except postgres > and root, so settings modified that way are only visible (and used) > for these users. ok, thank you for the clarification Christoph, root and postgres do

Bug#919385: postgresql-common: alter system set port ignored by pg-commands

2019-02-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Wim Bertels 2019-02-26 <1551198329.5922.23.ca...@ucll.be> > why are they different? if it's important that postgresql.auto.conf > isn't readable by other, then why is postgresql.conf, The problem is the PGDATA directory permissions, not so much the permissions of the file. PG checks if the per

Bug#919385: postgresql-common: alter system set port ignored by pg-commands

2019-02-27 Thread Christoph Berg
I was looking into several ideas that all have some problems. 0. Look into pg_settings Doesn't work because we can only query the database if we already know the port 1. Put the port on the postgres command line (postgres -p ) Works, but then restarting the server is hard once the port got

Bug#919385: postgresql-common: alter system set port ignored by pg-commands

2019-01-15 Thread wim
Source: postgresql-common Severity: normal Hallo, this report is long overdue, but i tested i today and still exists, probably debian specific for --cluster version/db option how to reproduce: 1. connect with psql to your local instance 2. use alter system to set the port to a non default port 3

Bug#919385: postgresql-common: alter system set port ignored by pg-commands

2019-03-04 Thread Wim Bertels
: alter system set port ignored by pg-commands I was looking into several ideas that all have some problems. 0. Look into pg_settings Doesn't work because we can only query the database if we already know the port 1. Put the port on the postgres command line (postgres -p ) Works, but

Bug#919385: postgresql-common: alter system set port ignored by pg-commands

2020-02-24 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: To wim.bert...@ucll.be 2019-02-27 <20190227143731.gc25...@msg.df7cb.de> > 4. Patch PostgreSQL such that it puts the port into external_pid_file, > i.e. into /var/run/postgresql/11-main.pid > > The bottom line is that #4 looks most attractive, but I'm not fixing > this in postgresql-common now.