Re: PostgreSQL configuration

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
Cc: pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL configuration
Date: 2004-04-12 01:56:10
Message-ID: 200404120156.i3C1uAV02349@candle.pha.pa.us
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I seems to me that the existing situation is actually correct :
>
> The configuration is a property of the initialized database cluster, so
> a logical place for it is in the root of said cluster.
>
> It is *not* a property of the installed binary distribution (e.g
> /usr/local/pgsql/etc) - as you may have *several* database clusters
> created using *this* binary distribution, each of which requiring a
> different configuration.
>
> Having said that, I am ok about the 'include' idea.

My idea was to put config files in /usr/local/pgsql/data/etc, not
pgsql/etc.

We don't put Unix configuration files in /, etc put them in /etc.

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