Sorry for replying to an old topic, but it would be really good to remove this from new packages, since it's useless, and that file path could be a nice directory for storing postgres logs outside the data dir.
Do you guys accept patches for the RPM repository?
Strahinja Kustudić| Lead System Engineer | Nordeus
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> wrote:
Hi, On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 15:52 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > The PGDG spec files for PostgreSQL have the following lines in the > server preinst section: > > %pre server > ... creates Pg user ... > touch /var/log/pgsql > chown postgres:postgres /var/log/pgsql > chmod 0700 /var/log/pgsql > > > What's the logic there? Why create an empty /var/log/pgsql file owned > by user 'pgsql' ? It's not used for anything and just seems confusing.
It is obsoleted, can be removed.
Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR
