Re: location of the configuration files

Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> On Saturday 15 February 2003 20:19, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> Just exactly why does initdb need to drop any config files anywhere?

>> Because we'd like it to edit the correct datadir into the config file,
>> to take just the most obvious example.

> Shouldn't we be consistent and have initdb use the datadir set in the config
> file, which could be supplied by a ./configure switch?

That'd mean there is no way to perform an initdb into a nonstandard
location without first hand-preparing a config file. I don't much care
for that.

> I'm looking at a packager point of view here. The initdb is done well after
> the package is made, and installed. It would be ideal from this point of
> view to have things fully configured pre-initdb (and thus pre-packaging).

This point of view means that no post-configure knowledge can be
applied. We might as well forget the separate initdb step altogether
and have "make install" do it.

I realize that from a packager's point of view, the separate initdb step
is not very useful. But it is from my point of view.

regards, tom lane