From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
Cc: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone |
Date: | 2001-01-29 03:04:00 |
Message-ID: | 200101290304.WAA01021@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> It has touched a nerve, hasn't it? I like your solution -- but, to
> reiterate, this IMHO is 7.2 material, unless we want to go the feature
> patch route, or someone considers this a 'bugfix' (I don't). Unless it
> is a trivial change, that is.
>
> Tom fixed the bug with a slight kludge -- by touching the lock
> periodically, the problem is ameliorated for now. But as long as we
> have a persistent file in /tmp we will run into OS-dependent problems.
> I can see now a bug report that PostgreSQL is unreliable because it
> keeps crashing every x days (due to a tmpreaper-like program the hapless
> user doesn't know is running in cron....).
>
> Since pg_config already reports what configure options were provided, if
> this is a configure option then the end user can easily find it with
> pg_config, if a static linkage or binary-only custom client that
> directly accesses the fe-be protocol (are there any that we know
> about?).
No one has suggested a location non-root people can put the socket/lock
file, except /tmp, and IMHO, until we find one, the default stays in
/tmp.
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