Description of problem: service rhdb start does not use options created in /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/rhdb as it should Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rh-postgresql-server-7.3.4-8 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.echo "-i" > /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/rhdb 2.service rhdb start 3.ps -ef | grep postmaster Actual results: postmaster running without -i option Expected results: postmaster running with -i option Additional info:
Created attachment 96345 [details] proposed patch for this bug
Created attachment 96346 [details] actual patch - first one had debugging information in the patch - sorry
Currently, there is no active support for the rh-postgresql set of packages in RHEL3. So as it stands, there will be no errata. However, the same set of RPMs have been incorporated into Fedora Core 1, under the name of postgresql-*. I can include your patch into Fedora's postgresql instead. Would that work for you?
For me personally, yes... but GSS is going to be expected to support this, and this may not work for Thomas, especially considering the issues we've had recently about the server packages not being in the original RHEL 3 release to begin with. Customers are not going to be too happy, but I'll leave the final decision to others higher up in the food chain.
I have patched this for Fedora Core 2. If I get a window of opportunity I will sneak it into the RHEL3 stream as well, but I won't roll the RHEL package just for this. (As a rule, you'd be better off setting options from postgresql.conf than on the postmaster command line anyway.)
*** Bug 121754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Repaired in rh-postgresql 7.3.6-3.
initdb takes care of copying postgresql.conf.sample to the active file ($PGDATA/postgresql.conf). We cannot do what you suggest without making wholesale revisions to the way the upstream package works. Whether or not it would be a good idea in a green-field situation, I don't think it's wise to make RH's version of postgres work differently from everyone else's.