| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Fixed directory locations in installs |
| Date: | 2004-05-02 17:30:28 |
| Message-ID: | 200405021730.i42HUSs10584@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > AFAICS the sharedir will already be sufficiently checked by means of
> > initdb's check on the postgres.bki version marker. In some sense, the
> > sharedir used by initdb is the *right* one for an installation by
> > definition --- I'm not even convinced that we should allow people to
> > fool with this after the fact.
>
> Actually, looking at the present contents of the sharedir, I'm not even
> sure that the backend needs to access it at all. Most of the files in
> there are used only by initdb. The only thing that seems needed after
> initdb is unknown.pltcl, and I'd not have a problem with moving that to
> libdir.
Are you aware timezone is now in /share, at least in Win32, and maybe on
Unix some day?
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