Re: PSA: Systemd will kill PostgreSQL

On 08/15/2016 02:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> On 07/10/2016 10:56 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> tl;dr; Systemd 212 defaults to remove all IPC (including SYSV memory)
>>> when a user "fully" logs out.
>
>> That looks like it was under discussion in April, though. Do we have
>> confirmation it was never fixed? I'm not seeing systemd killing
>> Postgres under Fedora24.
>
> Last I heard, there's an exclusion for "system" accounts, so an
> installation that's using the Fedora-provided pgsql account isn't
> going to have a problem. It's homebrew installs running under
> ordinary-user accounts that are at risk.

Presumably people just need to add the system account tag to the unit
file, no?

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Josh Berkus
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