Re: CentOS initd Script

Kenaniah Cerny wrote:
> I would first like to thank everyone involved for all of the hard work that goes into the postgres and
> the RPMs.I have a small request:
>
> In the service script that gets installed to /etc/rc.d/init.d/, there is a hard-coded value for
> PGPORT. Would it be possible to have this variable and the corresponding -p flag set when calling
> postgres removed?
>
> Explicitly specifying the port flag causes the port setting of postgresql.conf to be ignored. When
> postgresql.conf does not have the port explicitly defined, postgres falls back on the value of PGPORT,
> and ultimately 5432 when PGPORT is not present in the environment.
>
> My main use case for this request is concurrently running multiple versions of postgresql on non-
> standard ports on the same box.

You should ask the people who roll the RPMs for CentOS,
they are the ones who created that script.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe