On 05/16/2017 01:00 AM, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 22:35 -0700, Ken Tanzer wrote:
>> https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/2409
>
> Not sure whether we should *fix* this or not on RPM side. This may break some
> of the existing installations, right?
>
> I'm not objecting, just asking for opinions.
To me the principle of least surprise says that it should be fixed. At
this point a pre-9.4 server is putting its socket where the primary
client library(libpq) to said server cannot find it if a 9.4+ server is
installed. The options seem to be:
1) Use the libpq appropriate for each Postgres version.
2) Modify the postgresql.conf to point at the socket directory that the
controlling libpq is looking for. I could see this being messy.
3) Document the change in behavior. Possibly here:
https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
PostgreSQL Yum Repository
>
> Regards,
>
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Adrian Klaver
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