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@ 2000-08-18 14:58 Jim O'Rourke <JimO@Routescape.com>
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From: Jim O'Rourke @ 2000-08-18 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Is anybody else having problems with the /tmp/.s.PGSQL.${PGPORT} file being
removed by “cleantmp” et al.
/tmp is a dumping ground that rightly gets cleaned out periodically.
The only workaround I’ve come up with is to kill and restart the postmaster
when a connection attempt fails. This works fine except when the admin
wants the server down, ie: maintenance.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated !!
Thanks
Jim O’Rourke
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* Re: /tmp/.s.PGSQL.${PGPORT}
@ 2000-08-19 05:35 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
parent: Jim O'Rourke <JimO@Routescape.com>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2000-08-19 05:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim O'Rourke <JimO@Routescape.com>; +Cc: pgsql-interfaces
"Jim O'Rourke" <JimO@Routescape.com> writes:
> Is anybody else having problems with the /tmp/.s.PGSQL.${PGPORT} file being
> removed by cleantmp et al.
> /tmp is a dumping ground that rightly gets cleaned out periodically.
/tmp is a damfool place to have put the socket file, no doubt about that.
But we are stuck with it now if we don't want to break existing
applications --- the location of the socket file is a critical hardwired
part of the wire-level protocol, since the client and server MUST both
know it *before* any communication happens.
This was argued back around 6.4, IIRC, and we decided to do nothing.
The argument in favor of doing nothing seems even stronger now, with a
couple more years worth of existing clients out there...
Solutions:
1. Tweak your tmp-cleaning cron job to not remove the socket file.
2. Use IP instead of Unix-socket connections, so that your clients
don't care whether the socket file is there or not.
regards, tom lane
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