Re: Fixed directory locations in installs

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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?

We could move the timezone under /lib if that would make things easier.

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