From: | Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl(dot)pgsql-general(at)telemetry(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)PostgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Red Hat Policies Regarding PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2015-10-28 11:10:17 |
Message-ID: | n0qaeq$fec$1@pye-srv-01.telemetry.co.uk |
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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.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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