Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd + postgresql is non-obvious to me

[Aaron W. Swenson]

On 2014-07-15 08:52, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> On 15/07/14 07:36 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El mar, 15-07-2014 a las 13:31 +0200, Alexander Berntsen escribió:
> > [...]
> >> To alleviate this I needed to run "systemd-tmpfiles --create".
> >> This was non-obvious to me. Sounds like a packaging issue that I
> >> need to do it in the first place?
> >
> > It's: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462118
> >
> > The problem is that it's not clear to us how to make it
> > automatically without needing to call it manually from every ebuild
> > installing a tmpfiles.d file :(
> >
> >
>
> Wasn't there a plan to make an eclass helper to process tmpfiles.d
> files that get installed, during pkg_postinst ?
>
> ...and now that I think about it, did I say that I was going to write it?
>

There's a bit more to it, as well.

On the whole, I'm displeased with the systemd alternative for
controlling PostgreSQL. It's significantly hampered and doesn't allow
as much flexibility as the initscript. The major issue being trying to
nicely shut down the server instead of jumping straight to murder.

I really don't want to get into an OpenRC versus systemd flame-war,
but I really hate the systemd offering we have for PostgreSQL. It's
dumb and I recommend against using it.

I haven't used systemd and do not plan on using it until it actually
fixes a problem that's non-trivial, which is most likely never for me.

So, if any of you would like to improve our systemd offering, it'd be
welcomed enthusiastically.

-- 
Mr. Aaron W. Swenson
Gentoo Linux Developer
PostgreSQL Herd Bull
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