Hi, Martin, Martin Pitt wrote:
>>I used to have this setting in the init.d scripts, but as an apt-get >>upgrade overwrote this file, I was told to use postmaster.env instead. I >>don't remember whether there was an official bug filing, or this was >>private email. > > I did never see that bug, so maybe it was in a private email to Oliver > Elphick? Well, I searched my mail archive, and it was a side discussion in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284364 I also mis-remembered: It was postmaster.conf that was advised, and this is what we used on most machines. I don't know where the .env slipped in. >>As a workaround until all 7.4 databases are migrated, I just want to >>know the right place where to hack in this environment variable, so the >>postmaster process can access it. > > As far as I can see, an equivalent to the old postgresql.env file > seems to make sense and would also offer a transition path for the old > /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env file. So if postgresql-common would > support /etc/postgresql/version/cluster/environment, then you could > add these variables there, and the transitional postgresql package > could move postgresql.env there. > > Do you agree? Yes, this would solve my problem. Thanks, Markus
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