Re: What is the motivation of include directive and

"Takayuki Tsunakawa" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com> writes:
> Still, I don't understand well why config files need to be placed
> outside the data directory, except for daring conform to FHS.

The killer argument for it is that most of what is in $PGDATA should be
excluded from your normal filesystem backup method, because you need to
be using some database-aware mechanism for backing up the database. But
the config files are perfectly suited for standard filesystem backup,
and indeed will *not* be covered by, say, pg_dumpall. So putting them
somewhere else helps in creating a coherent backup strategy.

regards, tom lane