| From: | mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Kevin Brown <kevin(at)sysexperts(dot)com>, Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Subject: | Re: location of the configuration files |
| Date: | 2003-02-13 19:51:27 |
| Message-ID: | 3E4BF73F.8020006@mohawksoft.com |
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Robert Treat wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:13, mlw wrote:
>
>
>>My patch only works on the PostgreSQL server code. No changes have been
>>made to the initialization scripts.
>>
>>The patch declares three extra configuration file parameters:
>>hbafile= '/etc/postgres/pg_hba.conf'
>>identfile='/etc/postgres/pg_ident.conf'
>>datadir='/RAID0/postgres'
>>
>>
>>
>
>If we're going to do this, I think we need to account for all of the
>files in the directory including PG_VERSION, postmaster.opts,
>postmaster.pid. In the end if we can't build so that we are either fully
>FHS compliant and/or LSB compliant, we've not done enough work on it.
>
>Robert Treat
>
>
>
>
postmaster.opts, PG_VERSION, and postmaster.pid are not configuration
parameters.
PG_VERSION is VERY important, it is how you know the version of the
database.
Postmaster.pid is a postgres writable value
AFAIK, postmaster.opts is also a postgres writable value.
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