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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

To be honest this is mostly a wontfix. Either you do use the postgresql-
common integration tools, then we need to assume that the config files
from pg_createcluster don't get broken. Or you don't use the postgresql-
common tools and do everything by yourself, that's also okay. But mixing
the two is just too brittle, as there are so many combinations that it's
hard to impossible to test them all.

** Changed in: postgresql-common (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: postgresql-common (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1446811

Title:
  PgCommon::get_cluster_socketdir depends on unix_socket_directories
  setting

Status in postgresql-common package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  If postgresql.conf does not contain a unix_socket_directories setting,
  and the /var/run/postgresql directory does not exist, postgresql
  startup will fail due to underlying postgresql utilties throwing a
  "Cannot stat /var/run/postgresql" error.

  The issue is easy to reproduce:

  $ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql stop
  $ sudo rm -rf /var/run/postgresql
  $ sudo perl -pi -e 's/unix_socket_directories/#unix_socket_directories/g' /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf 
  $ psql --version
  Error: Cannot stat /var/run/postgresql
  $ pg_lsclusters 
  Error: Cannot stat /var/run/postgresql

  pg_lsclusters is especially important, because it is run inside the
  postgresql init.d script *before* the /var/run/postgresql directory is
  recreated.

  Adding the unix_socket_directories setting to postgresql.conf is a
  simple workaround. Filing this bug more for documentation purposes.

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