Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Not sure whether we should *fix* this or not on RPM side. This may break >> some of the existing installations, right? > Changing that in a minor version seems like a *really* bad idea, because > things *will* break. The way it is now it only breaks in case of a major > version upgrade, and there is an easy enough workaround present. Yeah, you don't have a lot of room in a minor release to make changes that would affect this. What Red Hat did about this, when I worked there, was to back-port the unix_socket_directories patch from 9.3 into earlier branches, and then set up the default server configuration to create sockets in both /var/run/postgresql and /tmp. But even if you did that, it'd require an upgrade of the 9.2 installation before it would play nice with a 9.6 libpq, so that might be surprising. (It would also break existing 9.2 installations that were explicitly setting unix_socket_directory, but we can hope there are very few of those.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
