GNU bug report logs - #46737
Services breakage from the PostgreSQL socket-directory configuration change

Previous Next

Full log

Message #14 received at 46737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: 46737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46737: Services breakage from the PostgreSQL
 socket-directory configuration change
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:47:45 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> writes:

> Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> One workaround, the one employed in the tests is to revert to the old
>>> behaviour for the PostgreSQL service by setting socket-directory to #f.
>>
>> You're right, sorry about the breakage. As you noticed we are in an
>> in-between situation where the patch updating Postgresql package to use
>> "/var/run/postgresql" by default is only on core-updates, but the
>> service is already using it as a default on master.
>>
>> This means that "createdb", "dropdb" and other Postgresql user tools
>> need to have an explicit "-h /var/run/postgresql" argument for now.
>>
>> Until the package patch gets merged in the master branch, we could set
>> the "socket-directory" field of <postgresql-config-file> record to #f to
>> restore an acceptable default behaviour.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> I think that would be good. It's unfortunate that the package change is
> stuck on core-updates for now, but configuring the service on master to
> keep the old behaviour until core-updates is merged sounds sensible.

I don't know if the expectation was that I was going to fix this, but
since it seems there's a release coming up, I went ahead and prepared a
patch [1].

1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47736

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.