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 bui
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut writes:
>> Maybe it would be easier if multiple -k options accumulated.
>
> After further thought I'm not very enamored of that concept. We've made
> considerable compromises to ensure that every postmaster command-line
> option
Peter Eisentraut writes:
> Maybe it would be easier if multiple -k options accumulated.
After further thought I'm not very enamored of that concept. We've made
considerable compromises to ensure that every postmaster command-line
option corresponds exactly to some GUC parameter; it does not seem
Peter Eisentraut writes:
> Maybe it would be easier if multiple -k options accumulated.
Hm, interesting thought, but how would we make that play in the generic
GUC support? Or are you imagining that we'd just kluge up -k with some
single-purpose code?
regards, tom lane
On 9/4/12 2:22 PM, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> murr...@murrayc.com writes:
>>> At some point, probably in 9.1.5, the -k option to Postgres ("Unix-domain
>>> socket location" in --help), stopped accepting paths that contain spaces.
>>
>>> For instanc
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> murr...@murrayc.com writes:
> > At some point, probably in 9.1.5, the -k option to Postgres ("Unix-domain
> > socket location" in --help), stopped accepting paths that contain spaces.
>
> > For instance,
> > -k '/tmp/testglom2FPDKW/path with spa
murr...@murrayc.com writes:
> At some point, probably in 9.1.5, the -k option to Postgres ("Unix-domain
> socket location" in --help), stopped accepting paths that contain spaces.
> For instance,
> -k '/tmp/testglom2FPDKW/path with spaces/some_postgres_data'
> It now fails with this error:
> FATA
The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 7514
Logged by: Murray Cumming
Email address: murr...@murrayc.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.1.5
Operating system: Fedora Linux 17
Description:
At some point, probably in 9.1.5, the -k option to Postgres ("Un
