Hi All, On Sun, 2016-12-25 at 08:18 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Scott Kitterman, on Sun 25 Dec 2016 01:27:58 -0500, wrote: > > On Sunday, December 25, 2016 06:36:52 AM Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Paul van der Vlis, on Sun 25 Dec 2016 01:34:15 +0100, wrote: > > > > I would like it when > > > > desktop users could get a message that programms has to be > > > > restarted. > > > > Not sure this is important for servers too, I would think so. > > > > > > In a mail server we have, the mysql upgrades are problematic: > > > while the > > > sql server is off, postgresql reports that mailboxes (whose > > > entries are > > > stored in the sql database) don't exist, i.e. a permanent fatal > > > error, > > > and mails then get lost. We haven't found how to make postgresql > > > return > > > a temporary error instead, and so we have to be careful, when > > > upgrading > > > mysql, to keep postgresql stopped until mysql is restarted. > > > > That's hardly a standard situation. > > Sure.
If we replace postgresql with postfix, that is much more closer to the standard. And I guess, that postgresql is just a "misspelling". Personally I use ldap to store the domains and the email addresses too.