Re: Add socket dir to pg_config..? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Add socket dir to pg_config..?
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Msg-id 20111028120107.GH24234@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Add socket dir to pg_config..?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Add socket dir to pg_config..?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> [ shrug... ]  We don't report the compiled-in port number, which is
> considerably more critical.  And we don't report changes in any of the
> other stuff in pg_config_manual.h.

True.

> MHO is that changing the socket directory is only marginally supported,
> and we shouldn't encourage it unless we're prepared to fully support it
> (which we can't really).

This concerns me a bit, as most distros change it..  What would you
expect to break when the socket dir is changed from the default?
Thanks,        Stephen

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