Re: PGDATA

From: David G Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PGDATA
Date: 2014-12-18 01:37:48
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Adrian Klaver-4 wrote
> Just out of curiosity is there a reason PGDATA is not listed with the
> other environment variables here?:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/libpq-envars.html

Yes, because PGDATA is not a client concern and thus is not something that
libpq cares about.

Clients only care about the public interface the server offers - stuff that
is socket related or that aids in identifying itself.

David J.

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