Re: Red Hat Policies Regarding PostgreSQL

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <
markMLl(dot)pgsql-general(at)telemetry(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Michael Convey <smconvey(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>
>>> Due to policies for Red Hat family distributions, the PostgreSQL
>>> installation will not be enabled for automatic start or have the database
>>> initialized automatically.
>>>
>>
>> To which policies are they referring? Licensing, security, or other?​
>>>
>>
>> Packaging policy: daemons shall not run merely by virtue of having been
>> installed. Otherwise, if you install a boatload of software without
>> checking each package, you'd have a boatload of probably-unwanted and
>> possibly-incorrectly-configured daemons running. Which is a performance
>> problem and likely a security hazard too.
>>
>> It's a good policy IMO (though I used to work there so no doubt I've just
>> drunk too much Red Hat koolaid).
>>
>
> Seems reasonable. In fact somewhat better than current KDE as in e.g.
> Debian "Jessie", which embeds a copy of MySQL whether the the user wants to
> use it or not.
>
>
Ubuntu 15 Desktop enables mysqld by default. In fact, it doesn't seem to
hook up with systemd in any obvious way to disable autostart.

--Scott

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