Re: location of the configuration files

From: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
To: Peter Bierman <bierman(at)apple(dot)com>
Cc: mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: location of the configuration files
Date: 2003-02-13 13:09:41
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.4.51.0302132208370.3775@angelic-vtfw.cvpn.cynic.net
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Peter Bierman wrote:

> What do you gain by having the postmaster config and the database
> data live in different locations?

You can then standardize a location for the configuration files.

Everybody has room in /etc for another 10K of data. Where you have
room for something that might potentially be a half terrabyte of
data, and is not infrequently several gigabytes or more, is pretty
system-depenendent.

cjs
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