Re: PGDATA / data_directory

Re: Benoit Lobréau 2016-08-31 <CAPE8EZ6ToyA=MMzL7Z-dyhhXhrtuAOgOd6we=cxjhTNd7JdiWA(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> Hi,
>
> My company is using PGDATA to store configuration files and the guc
> data_directory to give the path to the instance directory.
>
> They would use it like this:
>
> pg_ctl start -D <path to CONFDIR> -w
>
> with this directory setup:
>
> <somepath>/CONFDIR => postgresql.conf pg_hba.conf pg_ident.conf
> <somepath>/SYSTEM => All the normal stuff in the postgres instance
> directory + recovery.conf recovery.done etc...
>
> Is it commonly used ?

That's the default cluster layout on Debian (and Debian-based
distributions).

/etc/postgresql/9.5/main/
/var/lib/postgresql/9.5/main/
/var/run/postgresql/9.5-main.pg_stat_tmp/

Christoph