Re: [HACKERS] flock patch breaks things here

On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > either way, moving the pid file (or
> > socket, for that matter) from /tmp should be listed as a security related
> > requirement for v6.4 :)
> 
> Huh?  There is no pid file being generated in /tmp (or anywhere else)
> at the moment.  If we do add one, it should not go into /tmp for the
> reasons I gave before.
> 
> Where the Unix-domain socket file lives is an entirely separate issue.
> 
> If we move the socket out of /tmp then we have just kicked away all the
> work we did to preserve backwards compatibility of the FE/BE protocol
> with existing clients.  Being able to talk to a 1.0 client isn't much
> good if you aren't listening where he's going to try to contact you.
> So I think I have to vote in favor of leaving the socket where it is.

Let me put my vote in...: $PGSQLHOME/run/{pgsql.pid,pgsql.pid.socket}

Screw backwards compatibility...v6.5 becomes v7.0 *shrug*

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org