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Re: drop postmaster symlink

Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>

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From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-11-23T14:28:32Z
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Hi,

On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 09:18 -0500, Joe Conway wrote:
> I am a big +1 on removing the symlink, however it is worth pointing
> out 
> that the PGDG RPMs still use the symlink in the included systemd
> service 
> file:
> 
> 8<----------
> ExecStart=/usr/pgsql-15/bin/postmaster -D ${PGDATA}


...and it helps us to find the "main" process a bit easily.

Regards,
-- 
Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

Commits

  1. doc: Adjust a few more references to "postmaster"

  2. Don't install postmaster symlink anymore

  3. Remove gratuitous references to postmaster program