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Re: [HACKERS] postmaster crash and .s.pgsql file

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: James Hughes <jamesh@interpath.com>
Cc: Goran Thyni <goran@bildbasen.se>, maillist@candle.pha.pa.us, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-01-28T23:58:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, James Hughes wrote:

> 
> I would opt for /var/run to store the pid files and have the name set to

	That would assume that postmaster runs as root, which is not
allowed...has to be in /tmp somewhere

> pgsql.$PORT. A ".pgsql" subdirectory in /tmp would be nice to store all
> the sockets. You mentioned syslog capability in a previous message
> and maybe an rc file is needed too...
> 
> I'm with Goran though, we should save these for one of the next
> (6.3.[1-3]) releases.

	Makes sense

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org