| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Upcoming re-releases |
| Date: | 2006-02-09 21:59:29 |
| Message-ID: | 5140.1139522369@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> FWIW, I prefer the Debian location. AFAICS the only rationale for
> putting it in /tmp is "because it's always been there".
Actually, it's "because it's certain to be there and be accessible to
unprivileged users". If we tried to change to something like
/var/postgresql, then getting that directory made and properly
permissioned would be an additional installation-time stumbling block
in the way of newbies. That's not an issue for prepackaged builds that
(at some level) require root privs to install, but I don't foresee it
becoming the default for builds from source. Especially not given the
client/server compatibility problems it'd create.
regards, tom lane
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