On 11/2/12 11:17 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
-Add a configuration subdirectory to the default installation. Needs to follow the config file location, so things like the Debian relocation of postgresql.conf still work. Maybe it has zero files; maybe it has one that's named for this purpose, which defaults to the usual:What do you mean by "needs to follow"? In particular, do you mean that it should be relative to postgresql.conf? I think that would actually be a *problem* for any system that moves the config file away, like debian, since you'd then have to grant postgres write permissions on a directory in /etc/...
I should have just said that the rules for the directly location are the ones implied by the include-dir feature.
My understanding is that Debian Postgres installs already had writable config files in etc, so that you can modify the postgresql.conf, pg_hba.conf, etc. Here's a Squeeze server running the stock 8.4 plus 9.1 from backports, and /etc/postgresql/<version>/<cluster> is writable by the postgres user:
$ ls -ld /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/ drwxr-xr-x postgres postgres /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/ $ ls -ld /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/ drwxr-xr-x postgres postgres /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/ $ ls -ld /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf -rw-r--r-- postgres postgres /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf $ ls -ld /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf -rw-r--r-- postgres postgres /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services, and 24x7 Support www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
