Bug 735302

Summary:	environment variables from /etc/sysconfig does not affect startup script
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	arkhnchul <arkhnchul>
Component:	postgresql	Assignee:	Tom Lane <tgl>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	devrim, hhorak, tgl
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Description arkhnchul 2011-09-02 09:04:59 UTC

Description of problem:
changing environment variables like PGDATA in /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/postgresql does not affect to startng postgresql.service, unlike previous releases

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
postgresql-server-9.0.4-8.fc16.i686 package

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. change PGDATA in the /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/postgresql
2. try to restart postgresql server via "systemctl restart postgresql.service"
  
Actual results:
postgres still using /var/lib/pgsql/data as PGDATA

Expected results:
start postgresql server with PGDATA variable from /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/postgresql

Additional info:
workaround: change PGDATA in /lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service

Comment 1 Tom Lane 2011-09-02 13:56:02 UTC

This is an intentional change: sysconfig files are deprecated in the systemd world, and you're supposed to apply any customization you need by making a custom file in /lib/systemd/system.  (Yeah, I have doubts about the future-proofness of that policy too, but it's the policy.)

Comment 2 arkhnchul 2011-09-03 14:50:45 UTC

ok, thanks for explanation...

Comment 3 Tom Lane 2011-09-03 18:28:04 UTC

I've modified the Fedora 16 release notes to document this explicitly.