| From: | Andrew Sullivan <sullivana(at)bpl(dot)on(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Len Morgan <len-morgan(at)crcom(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: initdb and "exit_nicely"... |
| Date: | 2000-05-18 15:35:19 |
| Message-ID: | 20000518113519.C836@bpl.on.ca |
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On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:05:58AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Len Morgan" <len-morgan(at)crcom(dot)net> writes:
> > RedHat based rpm installations create the postgres superuser account as
> > part of the process and set the home directory for this user to PG_DATA.
>
> To be blunt, that's *incredibly* brain dead.
Does Red Hat actually make the _data_ directory the home? Debian avoids
this by making /var/lib/postgres the home, and data/ under that the PGDATA
directory. It sure doesn't seem a good idea to be using PGDATA as a home
directory.
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