>
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, David Gould wrote:
>
> > Also, before sprinkling files all over it is good to try to conform
> > to the FHS (File Hierarchy Standard) (see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/)
> > which is pretty easy to do and likely to make life easier later.
>
> I just downloaded and skim'd the fhs notes, and it looks
> reasonable...but, other then the current socket in /tmp, we don't
> "splinkle files all over"...do we? *raised eyebrow*
>
Well, perhaps not, thay might have been hyperbole, but I wanted to head it
off before it happened.
Also, what about moving the socket to the PG_DATA dir and then creating a
symlink to it in /tmp for older clients. New installations could optionally
not create (or remove) the symlink...
-dg
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