Re: [HACKERS] flock patch breaks things here

David Gould <dg@informix.com>

From: dg@informix.com (David Gould)
To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: dg@informix.com, maillist@candle.pha.pa.us, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-08-31T17:49:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, David Gould wrote:
> 
> > Also, before sprinkling files all over it is good to try to conform
> > to the FHS (File Hierarchy Standard) (see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/)
> > which is pretty easy to do and likely to make life easier later.
> 
> 	I just downloaded and skim'd the fhs notes, and it looks
> reasonable...but, other then the current socket in /tmp, we don't
> "splinkle files all over"...do we? *raised eyebrow*
> 

Well, perhaps not, thay might have been hyperbole, but I wanted to head it
off before it happened.

Also, what about moving the socket to the PG_DATA dir and then creating a
symlink to it in /tmp for older clients. New installations could optionally
not create (or remove) the symlink...

-dg

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