Re: Big 7.1 open items

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Sergio A(dot) Kessler" <sak(at)tribctas(dot)gba(dot)gov(dot)ar>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-13 14:01:11
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.02A.10006131600120.20240-100000@Ulv.DoCS.UU.SE
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

> > > > new location for config files
> > >
> > > can I suggest /etc/postgresql ?
> >
> > you can ... but everything related to postgresql has always been designed
> > not to require any special permissions to install, and /etc/postgresql
> > would definitely require root access to install :(
>
> ~postgres/etc ??

You need root access to create a postgres user. What's wrong with just
keeping it in $PGDATA and making symlinks whereever you would prefer it?

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