Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > FWIW, I prefer the Debian location. AFAICS the only rationale for > putting it in /tmp is "because it's always been there".
Actually, it's "because it's certain to be there and be accessible to unprivileged users". If we tried to change to something like /var/postgresql, then getting that directory made and properly permissioned would be an additional installation-time stumbling block in the way of newbies. That's not an issue for prepackaged builds that (at some level) require root privs to install, but I don't foresee it becoming the default for builds from source. Especially not given the client/server compatibility problems it'd create. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org