Re: What's the logic of touching /var/log/pgsql ?

Here is a patch which removes this from all currently maintained versions.

Strahinja Kustudić | Lead System Engineer | Nordeus

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Strahinja Kustudić <strahinjak(at)nordeus(dot)com>
wrote:

> Sorry for replying to an old topic, but it would be really good to remove
> this from new packages, since it's useless, and that file path could be a
> nice directory for storing postgres logs outside the data dir.
>
> Do you guys accept patches for the RPM repository?
>
>
> Strahinja Kustudić | Lead System Engineer | Nordeus
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 15:52 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> > The PGDG spec files for PostgreSQL have the following lines in the
>> > server preinst section:
>> >
>> > %pre server
>> > ... creates Pg user ...
>> > touch /var/log/pgsql
>> > chown postgres:postgres /var/log/pgsql
>> > chmod 0700 /var/log/pgsql
>> >
>> >
>> > What's the logic there? Why create an empty /var/log/pgsql file owned
>> > by user 'pgsql' ? It's not used for anything and just seems confusing.
>>
>> It is obsoleted, can be removed.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Devrim GÜNDÜZ
>> Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>> PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
>> Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR
>>
>>
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