Re: PSA: Systemd will kill PostgreSQL

On 08/15/2016 05:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> On 08/15/2016 02:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Last I heard, there's an exclusion for "system" accounts, so an
>>> installation that's using the Fedora-provided pgsql account isn't
>>> going to have a problem.  It's homebrew installs running under
>>> ordinary-user accounts that are at risk.
> 
>> Presumably people just need to add the system account tag to the unit
>> file, no?
> 
> Well, yeah, it's easy to fix once you know you need to do so.  The
> complaint is basically that out-of-the-box, it's broken, and it's
> not very clear what was gained by breaking it.

You're welcome to argue with Lennart about that.  I'm not personally
supporting the feature, I just don't think it's that hard to work around.

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Josh Berkus
Red Hat OSAS
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