Re: location of the configuration files

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:45, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Now, on to this configuration discussion. Seems moving the config file
> out of $PGDATA requies either:
>
> 1) we specifiy both the config directory and the data directory on
> postmaster start
>
> 2) we specify the pgdata directory inside postgresql.conf or
> other config file
>
> Is this accurate?

The default start would read the config file from its predefined
location, set by ./configure. No command line options would be
necessary for the postmaster to run, though they could be provided.

The config file should contain the pgdata location; this and any other
parameter should be overridden if a different location is specified by a
command-line option. I think the config should be able to contain all
information that can be specified on the command line (except, of
course, the location of the configuration file.)

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