Re: config files in /data

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: config files in /data
Date: 2000-06-02 23:56:27
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0006030154460.406-100000@localhost.localdomain
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Lamar Owen writes:

> config or etc, perhaps? But, make the location configuratable (so that
> the RPM's can finally do away with config data in /var, and put it in
> /etc/pgsql, where it belongs in the RPM distribution.

The Linux FHS or GNU standards or whatever are really only good for
programs that act on one piece of data per system. But you can run many
postmasters per system so you can't fix the location of the configuration
files independently of that of the data.

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