Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files, how about this:

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Daniel Kalchev" <daniel(at)digsys(dot)bg>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files, how about this:
Date: 2001-12-19 11:00:23
Message-ID: 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA41EB46E@m0114.s-mxs.net
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> > Changing the default data location at this point would imho
> > be a major hassle for those actually using the default.
> > Thus I object to changing it.
>
> The idea is to have the default configuration file location
> possible to change at configure time.

I totally support that, and think sysconfdir is a good default.

> If whoever compiles PostgreSQL does not specify different
> location, I guess /usr/local/pgsql/data will be the default location.

That is what I meant, but proposed was statedir (== /usr/local/pgsql/var).

Andreas

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