Re: location of the configuration files

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> If you want ps to display the data dir, you should use -D. Remember, it
> is mostly important for multiple postmaster, so if you are doing that,
> just use -D, but don't prevent single-postmaster folks from using
> PGDATA.

Perhaps another reasonable approach would be to put an #ifdef/#endif
around the "potential_DataDir = getenv("PGDATA");" line in postmater.c
and create a configure option to enable it. That way you guys get the
behavior you want for testing but production builds could disable it
if that's viewed as desirable. You'd want to make the error message
that's produced when no data directory is specified depend on the same
#ifdef variable, of course.

Then the group would get to fight it out over whether the configure
default should be "enable" or "disable". :-)

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Kevin Brown kevin(at)sysexperts(dot)com