Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > No one has suggested a location non-root people can put the socket/lock
> > file, except /tmp, and IMHO, until we find one, the default stays in
> > /tmp.
> 
> Since RPM's _must_ be installed by root, that doesn't affect them.  The
> debian packages are the same way.  As long as the RPM contains the
> structures set as owned by 'postgres' (the default run user for
> postmaster), and the appropriate permissions are set, the directory
> could be anywhere, such as /var/run/pgsql. But there are of course
> problems with that approach, because libpq makes some hard-coded
> assumptions about where to look.

The issue we have is that we don't assume root installs.  Any root
requirement is going to be RPM-specific.

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