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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > How about an environment variable?  PGSOCKLOC?  Use the hard-coded
> > default if the envvar not set? This way multiple postmasters running on
> > multiple sockets can be smoothly supported.
> It's spelled PGHOST as of 7.1 ... but the discussion here is about what
> the default behavior of an installation will be, not what you can
> override it to do.

I'm talking about Unix domain socket location, not TCP/IP hostname,
which PGHOST is, right?

But you are very right -- this doesn't help the default. The
FHS-mandated place for such a configuration file detailing such settings
is in /etc -- but, of course, we support installations that have been
installed by a non-root user.  ISTM a 'pg_config --default-socket'
command could be used to find the location, assuming pg_config is on the
PATH.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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