Re: Upcoming re-releases

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@commandprompt.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2006-02-09T20:09:32Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>Stephen Frost wrote:
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>>* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@commandprompt.com) wrote:
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>>>The only thing that I hate is that libpq defaults to searching the
>>>local socket in /var/postgresql/ or thereabouts.  It really drives me
>>>crazy and I've banned the libpq packages from my system.
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>>Perhaps /var/run/postgresql/?  Where do you think it should go...?
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>Where the upstream package puts it, /tmp ...  But yeah, I know about the
>Debian Policy.
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Maybe this should be a configure flag, just like the port number is.

cheers

andrew