Re: PSA: Systemd will kill PostgreSQL

On Aug 16, 2016 4:43 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 8/16/16 8:53 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
> >> That's a system level change though. How would a normal user manage
this?
>
> > Arguably, if you are a normal user, you probably shouldn't be using
> > systemd to start system services under your own account.
>
> I'm not totally sure, but I think that the complaints were not about
> systemd-driven services. (In such a case, it's almost certainly possible
> to fix it by adjusting your systemd unit definition file, anyway.)
> Rather, the problem arises when J. Ordinary User does
>
> nohup postmaster &
>
> and then logs out. That's certainly not much of a recipe for production
> services but people have been known to do it for testing --- in fact,
> that's pretty much what I do every day with test postmasters. I suppose
> whenever I migrate to a recent-systemd-based distro I'm going to have to
> turn off this miserable excuse for a feature. I sure hope there's a way
> to do so.

I think this is a partially different issue though. They already broke the
nohup approach earlier with a different change, didn't they?

/Magnus