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 www.openismus.com -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs