Re: Ability to listen on two unix sockets

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2012-06-13T22:19:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On ons, 2012-06-13 at 15:14 +0200, Honza Horak wrote:
> Thus, I'd like to ask if anybody is aware of any issue connected with 
> simply patching pg_config_manual.h, same as Debian does it already?
> For example, is there any piece of software, that simply rely on /tmp 
> location of the socket and doesn't use libpg for the communication?

If you're asking, should Red Hat/Fedora simply fix the issue locally by
patching pg_config_manual.h, then yes, that would work, see Debian, but
it has its annoyances, especially with additional software compiled from
source, or third-party binary installers.