Re: [HACKERS] flock patch breaks things here

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

To: David Gould <dg@informix.com>

Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, maillist@candle.pha.pa.us, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, hackers@postgreSQL.org

Date: 1998-09-01T01:38:19Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> Also, what about moving the socket to the PG_DATA dir and then 
> creating a symlink to it in /tmp for older clients.

Clients don't have visibility into $PG_DATA, do they? Just ran into this
working on the ODBC interface, trying to find a place for a system-wide
configuration file. Ended up putting it in $POSTGRESDIR by default.

The /var/run option (or something similar) seems to be a good way to
head, if we can get enough support on the different platforms. Actually,
this could be an autoconf test, couldn't it?

                    - Thomas