On Wed Apr 12, 2023 at 4:19 PM CDT, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 11.04.23 19:18, Andres Freund wrote: > >> Subject: [PATCH v9 2/5] Add data layout options sub-section in installation > >> docs > >> > >> This commit separates out blocksize, segsize and wal_blocksize > >> options into a separate Data layout options sub-section in both > >> the make and meson docs. They were earlier in a miscellaneous > >> section which included several unrelated options. This change > >> also helps reduce the repetition of the warnings that changing > >> these parameters breaks on-disk compatibility. > > > > Makes sense. I'm planning to apply this unless Peter or somebody else has > > further feedback. > > I'm okay with patches 0001 through 0004. > > I don't like 0005. I think we should drop that for now and maybe have a > separate discussion under a separate heading about that.
With regard to 0005, perhaps it makes the most sense to use the XDG Directory Specification as an example. Install into ~/.local or ~/.local/postgres (as the Meson default prefix is). Put the data into ~/.var/lib/postgres or something similar. -- Tristan Partin Neon (https://neon.tech)
