Re: config files in /data

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: config files in /data
Date: 2000-05-31 19:43:10
Message-ID: 200005311943.PAA23298@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > Rather than restricting database names, we should keep these files in
> > a different subdirectory. I agree that it's a good idea to separate
> > them from the directly-editable config files, just not to put them in
> > data/base/ ...
>
> Right. How about `$PGDATA/internal'? Can't be more obvious. Perhaps with
> that we could also have initdb clean up a little more respectfully.

Are we talking about moveing pg_log and pg_shadow? Maybe call it
/global because the tables are global to all databases.

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