Iain wrote:
> Is there a "standard" directory that people tend to use for this,
> such as /var/local/pgsql/ ?
According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, program data should be
under /var/lib/<packagename>. Indeed, many binary distributions use
some variant of that as data directory location.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/