On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jan Wieck wrote: > With the number of screws our product has, there are so many > possible combinations that don't work, why worry about one more > or less?
That's just silly, so I won't even bother replying. > Seriously, if you move around files, make symlinks or adjust > config variable to reflect that, there's allways the possibility > that you fatfinger it and cannot startup. True. But once your symlink is in place, it is stored on disk in the postgres data directory. An environment variable is a transient setting in memory, which means that you have to have a program set it, and you have to make sure that program gets run before any startup, be it an automated startup from /etc/rc on boot or a manual startup. > I want to have it it the config file. Well, then we're agreed. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster