Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]

Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
> 2013-01-18 11:05 keltezssel, Amit kapila rta:
>> On using mktemp, linux compilation gives below warning
>> warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
>> 
>> So I planned to use mkstemp.

> Good.

On my HPUX box, the man page disapproves of both, calling them obsolete
(and this man page is old enough to vote, I believe...)

Everywhere else that we need to do something like this, we just use our
own PID to disambiguate, ie
	sprintf(tempfilename, "/path/to/file.%d", (int) getpid());
There is no need to deviate from that pattern or introduce portability
issues, since we can reasonably assume that no non-Postgres programs are
creating files in this directory.

			regards, tom lane