| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Explicit configuration file |
| Date: | 2001-12-12 12:03:44 |
| Message-ID: | m3heqwwspr.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I wonder if we should go one step further. Should we be specifying the
> config file on the command line _rather_ than the data directory. We
> could then specify the data directory location in the config file. That
> seems like the direction we should be headed in, though I am not sure it
> is worth the added headache of the switch.
That's what mlw is advocating--all the startup script has to know is
the conf file location. I for one think it's totally worth doing, and
it won't break any existing setups--if -C (or whatever) isn't
specified, postmaster expects PGDATA on the command line and gets the
donfig file from there; if it is, PGDATA comes from the config file.
-Doug
--
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863
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