110912 – postgres user doesn't have properly set environment variables

Bug 110912 - postgres user doesn't have properly set environment variables

Summary: postgres user doesn't have properly set environment variables

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Highest major
Assignee:	PgSQL Bugs

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Reported:	2005-10-30 09:39 UTC by David Fetter
Modified:	2010-03-16 22:52 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description David Fetter 2005-10-30 09:39:58 UTC

The postgres user doesn't have $PGDATA (or other environment variables) set by
default.  This constitutes a big foot gun.  It also makes it hard to fix the
startup script, which is pretty braindead.  Bug report follows on this.

Comment 1 Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2010-03-16 22:52:21 UTC

Fixed with last bump