From: | Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: location of the configuration files |
Date: | 2003-02-17 19:03:31 |
Message-ID: | 20030217140331.V22104@mail.libertyrms.com |
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On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:16:44AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nor will I buy an argument that only a few developers have need for test
> installations. Ordinary users will want to do that anytime they are
> doing preliminary tests on a new PG version before migrating their
> production database to it. To the extent that you make manual selection
> of a nonstandard datadir location more difficult and error-prone, you
> are hurting them too.
Not only that. For safety's sake, you may need to run multiple
postmasters on one machine (so that database user X can't DoS
database user Y, for instance). And making that sort of
production-grade work more difficult and error-prone would also be
bad.
A
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