Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files, how

From: Daniel Kalchev <daniel(at)digsys(dot)bg>
To: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files, how
Date: 2001-12-19 10:53:54
Message-ID: 200112191053.MAA03317@dcave.digsys.bg
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>>>"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" said:
>
> > I think the data directory should be explicitly configured by either the
> > posgresql.conf file, environment variable (PGDATA), or through the command
line
> > option, but using the "configure" statedir isn't anything
> > anyone would object too.
>
> Changing the default data location at this point would imho be a major hassl
e
> for those actually using the default.
> Thus I object to changing it.

The idea is to have the default configuration file location possible to change
at configure time. If whoever compiles PostgreSQL does not specify different
location, I guess /usr/local/pgsql/data will be the default location.

Daniel

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