Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 17:52, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > Seems to me that if FHS allows such a mess, it's reason enough to avoid > > compliance. Either that or those of you who build for distributions are > > making an ill advised change. Simply because the distribution makes the > > decision to add PostgreSQL, or some other package, to it's distribution > > doesn't make it a requirement to change the location of the config files. > > Debian (and FHS) specifically requires that. All configuration files > MUST be under /etc; the reason is to make the system administrator's job > easier. Part of the raison d'etre of a distribution is to rationalise > the idiosyncrasies of individual projects. The locations used by > locally-built packages are up to the local administrator, but they > really should not be in /etc and are recommended to be under /usr/local. > > I really don't see why there is such a not-invented-here mentality about > this issue. I say again, standards-compliance is the best way. It > makes life easier for everyone if standards are followed. Don't we > pride ourselves on being closer to the SQL spec than other databases? > Any way, if PostgreSQL stays as it is, I will continue to have to ensure > that initdb creates symlinks to /etc/postgresql/, as happens now.
It doesn't have anything to do with "not-invented-here", which is a common refrain by people who don't like our decisions, like "Why don't you use mmap()? Oh, it's because I thought of it and you didn't". Does anyone seriously believe that is the motiviation of anyone in this project! I certainly don't. Now, on to this configuration discussion. Seems moving the config file out of $PGDATA requies either: 1) we specifiy both the config directory and the data directory on postmaster start 2) we specify the pgdata directory inside postgresql.conf or other config file Is this accurate? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html