At 12:31 AM -0500 2/13/03, mlw wrote:
>The idea that a, more or less, arbitrary data location determines
>the database configuration is wrong. It should be obvious to any
>administrator that a configuration file location which controls the
>server is the "right" way to do it.
Isn't the database data itself a rather significant portion of the
'configuration' of the database?
What do you gain by having the postmaster config and the database
data live in different locations?
-pmb