9 Commits (c25b4dbf03a9b9e5bf79f2f7e2bcdcd9dc6263b9)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Bruce Momjian	ebd61ac03f	Remove -k unix socketpath option from client side, allow hostname with ... leading slash to behave as a unix socket path.	25 years ago
Bruce Momjian	2150c2edf1	UUNET is looking into offering PostgreSQL as a part of a managed web ... hosting product, on both shared and dedicated machines. We currently offer Oracle and MySQL, and it would be a nice middle-ground. However, as shipped, PostgreSQL lacks the following features we need that MySQL has: 1. The ability to listen only on a particular IP address. Each hosting customer has their own IP address, on which all of their servers (http, ftp, real media, etc.) run. 2. The ability to place the Unix-domain socket in a mode 700 directory. This allows us to automatically create an empty database, with an empty DBA password, for new or upgrading customers without having to interactively set a DBA password and communicate it to (or from) the customer. This in turn cuts down our install and upgrade times. 3. The ability to connect to the Unix-domain socket from within a change-rooted environment. We run CGI programs chrooted to the user's home directory, which is another reason why we need to be able to specify where the Unix-domain socket is, instead of /tmp. 4. The ability to, if run as root, open a pid file in /var/run as root, and then setuid to the desired user. (mysqld -u can almost do this; I had to patch it, too). The patch below fixes problem 1-3. I plan to address #4, also, but haven't done so yet. These diffs are big enough that they should give the PG development team something to think about in the meantime :-) Also, I'm about to leave for 2 weeks' vacation, so I thought I'd get out what I have, which works (for the problems it tackles), now. With these changes, we can set up and run PostgreSQL with scripts the same way we can with apache or proftpd or mysql. In summary, this patch makes the following enhancements: 1. Adds an environment variable PGUNIXSOCKET, analogous to MYSQL_UNIX_PORT, and command line options -k --unix-socket to the relevant programs. 2. Adds a -h option to postmaster to set the hostname or IP address to listen on instead of the default INADDR_ANY. 3. Extends some library interfaces to support the above. 4. Fixes a few memory leaks in PQconnectdb(). The default behavior is unchanged from stock 7.0.2; if you don't use any of these new features, they don't change the operation. David J. MacKenzie	25 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	8095924bdd	Make sure shell scripts send error messages to stderr. ... Improve help output. Teach droplang to remove 'pltclu'.	25 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	65e0051843	another round of user interface cleanups ... removed pg_id fixed a few bugs in the scripts	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	f6689a328f	Fixed a few "fixes" and bugs. Adjusted messages and options to GNU suggestions.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	5ca971a18a	Hi, ... I sending promised patch with: * getopt_long() - for pg_dump (portable) * and "Usage: " changes in scripts in src/bin/ - this changes are cosmetic only, not change any feature ...etc. All PostgreSQL routines (scripts) support now long options and help's output is alike for all scripts and all support -? or --help. Karel Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz> http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	a0aab48fcd	Okay, that should put us back in sync. These two patches (src & doc) are ... against the sources from one hour ago and contain all the portable and up to date stuff. A few other CVS "householding" things you might want to take care of: * Remove the src/bin/cleardbdir directory * Remove the file src/bin/psql/sql_help.h from the repository, as it is a derived file and is build by the release_prep. Peter Eisentraut	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	81c0383295	Fix echo -n and read -r in scripts.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	240e4c98f5	New scripts for create/drop user/db from Peter Eisentraut	26 years ago