| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Christopher Sawtell <csawtell(at)xtra(dot)co(dot)nz>, "pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Counting distinct names |
| Date: | 2000-04-20 14:04:24 |
| Message-ID: | 1781.956239464@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE> writes:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The default location is PREFIX/data; I don't think there is a configure
>> option to change that without setting --prefix.
> That's news to me. There is no default for the data storage location
> anywhere that I can see. You always need to use the -D option or set
> PGDATA in the environment.
Oh, you're right of course. My system behaves like there's a default,
but that's because I have PGDATA set in my .profile ;-)
*Should* there be a default location established by configure?
I think I'd prefer that to having the dependence on an environment var
... but on the other hand we couldn't really remove the envar without
breaking a lot of installations...
regards, tom lane
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