Re: Permissions on postgresql.conf, psql and patroni

From: "Daniel Verite" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
To: "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Permissions on postgresql.conf, psql and patroni
Date: 2019-09-09 11:29:38
Message-ID: 925de979-955f-45c3-a680-7893bb4afb17@manitou-mail.org
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Peter J. Holzer wrote:

> 2) Why does psql need to read postgresql.conf, and more specifically,
> why does it care about the location of the data directory? It
> shouldn't access files directly, just talk to the server via the
> socket.

It's not psql itself, it's pg_wrapper.

$ ls -l /usr/bin/psql
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Aug 8 12:48 /usr/bin/psql ->
../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper

See http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/pg_wrapper.1.html

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Daniel Vérité
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