teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes:
> While on the subject of postgresql conf... shouldn't it be in
> sysconfdir instead of the database directory?
No. That would (a) not allow different postmasters to have different
config files; (b) not allow a person to create an unprivileged
installation (assuming that sysconfdir is root-owned).
regards, tom lane