Re: location of the configuration files

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:51, mlw wrote:
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> Robert Treat wrote:
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> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:13, mlw wrote:
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> My patch only works on the PostgreSQL server code. No changes have been
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> made to the initialization scripts.
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> The patch declares three extra configuration file parameters:
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> hbafile= '/etc/postgres/pg_hba.conf'
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> identfile='/etc/postgres/pg_ident.conf'
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> datadir='/RAID0/postgres'
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> If we're going to do this, I think we need to account for all of the
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> files in the directory including PG_VERSION, postmaster.opts,
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> postmaster.pid. In the end if we can't build so that we are either fully
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> FHS compliant and/or LSB compliant, we've not done enough work on it.
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> postmaster.opts, PG_VERSION, and postmaster.pid are not configuration
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So? I'm not saying they all have to be moved, just they all need to be
accounted for.

> PG_VERSION is VERY important, it is how you know the version of the
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> Postmaster.pid is a postgres writable value
> AFAIK, postmaster.opts is also a postgres writable value.
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IIRC the postmaster.pid file should be in /var/run according to FHS, I'm
not sure about postmaster.opts though...

Again, if we're going to make a change, let's make sure we think it
through.

Robert Treat