Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows

"Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> Yes, I know. Peter seemed to be saying that nothing except postgres
> itself should be in *any* of the installation directories

Yeah, that's what I think he said too, but it strikes me as a completely
bogus policy --- what about contrib modules or stuff from pgfoundry
or any random user-written module that was built with PGXS? All that
stuff happily drops files under $libdir and $sharedir, and I see no good
argument why it shouldn't.

There is fair room for argument about whether $sharedir is the
appropriate place for installation-specific config files though.
Those should probably live in the same place as postgresql.conf
and friends, ie, typically but not necessarily $PGDATA. It doesn't
look like SelectConfigFiles() saves the config directory name anyplace
where an add-on module could get at it. We could perhaps fix that for
8.3, but it won't help Mark if he insists on a backwards-compatible
solution. I suppose he could copy ConfigFileName and strip the last
component from it?

regards, tom lane