From: | mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, "J(dot) M(dot) Brenner" <doom(at)kzsu(dot)stanford(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: location of the configuration files |
Date: | 2003-02-17 03:41:37 |
Message-ID: | 3E5059F1.2050309@mohawksoft.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> writes:
>
>
>>The idea of using a "directory" puts us back to using symlinks to share
>>files.
>>
>>
>
>So? If you want to share files, you're probably sharing all three
>config files and don't need a separate directory at all. This is
>not a sufficient argument to make me buy into the mess of letting
>people choose nonstandard configuration file names --- especially
>when most of the opposite camp seems to be more interested in choosing
>*standard* names for things. Why does that policy stop short at the
>directory name?
>
>
symlinks suck. Sorry Tom, but they are *BAD* in a production server. You
can not add comments to symlinks. Most of the admins I know, myself
included, HATE symlinks and use them as a last resort. Requiring
symlinks is just pointless, we are talking about a few lines of code hat
has nothing to do with performance.
The patch that I submitted allows PostgreSQL to work as it always has,
but adds the ability for a configuration file to do what is normally
done with fixed names in $PGDATA.
I have said before, I do not like policy, I like flexibility, forcing a
directory is similarly restricting as requiring the files in $PGDATA.
Why is this such a problem? MANY people want to configure PostgreSQL
this way, but the patch I submitted allows it, but does not force
anything. Any configuration solution that requires symlinks is flawed.
>
>
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