Re: location of Unix socket

* Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> [001117 16:41] wrote:
> At present the Unix socket's location is hard-coded as /tmp.
> 
> As a result of a bug report, I have moved it in the Debian package to 
> /var/run/postgresql/.  (The bug was that tmpreaper was deleting it and
> thus blocking new connections.)
> 
> I suppose that we cannot assume that /var/run exists across all target
> systems, so could the socket location be made a configurable parameter
> in 7.1?

What about X sockets and ssh-agent sockets, and so on?

Where's the source to this thing? :)

It would make more sense to fix tempreaper to ignore non regular
files.

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