On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 20:22 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> To be honest, I don't have much interest in, or understanding of, this
> -k option anyway. I just use it because, when starting my temporary
> postgresql instance, it otherwise defaults to /var/run/postgresql/ (at
> least in this distro build) which is not available to normal users. I
> currently just specify the same directory that the postgresql data is
> in. Maybe I should just use /tmp instead.

Or would that be a security hole, allowing other users to access the
database server on multiuser systems?
 
-- 
Murray Cumming
murr...@murrayc.com
www.murrayc.com
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