Re: Upcoming re-releases

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@commandprompt.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2006-02-09T21:47:13Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:16:29PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Maybe this should be a configure flag, just like the port number is.
> 
> It is ... that isn't the issue, the problem is exactly that Debian
> chooses to exercise the option to make their installations different
> from everyone else's.

FWIW, I prefer the Debian location. AFAICS the only rationale for
putting it in /tmp is "because it's always been there". I also agree
with suggestions to move ssh and X11 sockets out of /tmp. /tmp should
be for, well, temporary files...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.