| From: | Martin Coxall <coxall(at)cream(dot)org> |
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| To: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Bierman <bierman(at)apple(dot)com>, mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: location of the configuration files |
| Date: | 2003-02-14 14:07:17 |
| Message-ID: | 1045221973.2438.10.camel@gypsumfantastic |
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On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 20:28, Steve Crawford wrote:
> I don't see why we can't keep everyone happy and let the users choose the
> setup they want. To wit, make the following, probably simple, changes:
>
> 1) Have postgresql default to using /etc/postgresql.conf
/etc/postgres/postgresql.conf, if we want to be proper FHS-bitches.
> 2) Add a setting in postgresql.conf specifying the data directory
> 3) Change the meaning of -D to mean "use this config file"
> 4) In the absence of a specified data directory in postgresql.conf, use the
> location of the postgresql.conf file as the data directory
Shouldn't it in that case default to, say /var/lib/postgres?
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Martin Coxall <coxall(at)cream(dot)org>
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