[Pgpool-general] Location of pgpool.pid

[Christoph Handel]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:48:25AM +0100, Jaume Sabater wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Didn't mean at all that it was a good substitute. It's the right place
> to be on Debian. I was just agreeing to your previous post plus giving
> a solution for a specific platform. In my opinion, it's fine as it is
> now (default value and a note to remind the user to change it) :)

According to Filesystem Hierachy Standard the pidfile should end up in
/var/run. Either directly or in a subfolder. Can't we simply create a
folder there on make install?

Greetings
  Christoph