# Some notes about Skytools3

DevFeed: [Some notes about Skytools3](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/some-notes-about-skytools3-34411.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2011/04/some-notes-about-skytools3/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2011-04-11T09:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

Tags: [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [packaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packaging.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [separate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/separate.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>), [system](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/system.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses packaging Skytools3, including separating its daemons and subprojects into installable components for PostgreSQL environments. It describes service users, configuration files, startup and shutdown integration, logging defaults, and planned documentation work before a public release.

## Source excerpt

I've been working on skytools3 packaging lately. I've been pushing quite a lot of work into it, in order to have exactly what I needed out of the box, after some 3 years of production and experiences with the products. Plural, yes, because even if pgbouncer and plproxy are siblings to the projets (same developers team, separate life cycle and releases), then skytools still includes several sub-projects. Here's what the skytools3 packaging is going to look like: