[Pgpool-general] Location of pgpool.pid

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> > I'm finally using the latest CVS version of pgpool-II. One question: is it
> > proper to leave the creation of pgpool.pid under /tmp directory? I suppose
> > it is defaulted to /tmp for suiting everybody's needs... Any thoughts?
> 
> It's just a default value, but not a good idea at all. On Debian, I
> set it to /var/run/postgresql.

If you have a good substitution for /tmp, I'm always open to your
opinion. But I don't think /var/run/postgresql is appropreate for a
new default since not all platform has the directory nor pgpool has a
write permission on that.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan