Re: Moving lock file (/tmp/.s.PGSQL.<port>)

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Madison Kelly wrote:

> If there a ./configure switch (or config file/command line switch) to
> tell postgresql to put the lock file '.s.PGSQL.<port>.lock' and socket
> '.s.PGSQL.<port>' in a different directory?

There's no ./configure option, so you should change
DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR in ./src/include/pg_config_manual.h
If every client is linked (preferably dynamically) with libpq, which
is compiled with changed DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR, then this would work
with no special configuration.

Alternatively there's a command line switch "-k" or
"unix_socket_directory" config option for postgres server:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config-connection.html

And PGHOST environment variable for clients:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/libpq-envars.html

Regards
Tometzky
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