On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:09 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tim Bruce - Postgres escribió:
> > On Tue, February 2, 2010 08:23, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > > Probably pg_read_file():
> > >
> > > select pg_read_file('pg_hba.conf', 0, 8192);
> > >
> > > Note that pg_read_file only allows paths relative to $PGDATA, which is
> > > what you get from SHOW data_directory;
> >
> > Since the pg_hba.conf file is located in the /etc path, the pg_read_file
> > command fails with an error of
> >
> > "could not open file "pg_hba.conf" for reading: No such file or direcotry"
>
> Hmm, yeah, that's a shortcoming of the debian packaging, no doubt. Does
> it not install symlinks in the actual data directory? If not, that
> should be reported as a bug ...
I disagree. Debian/Ubuntu use the postgresql.conf facilities to have a
different postgresql.conf.
This is a limitation within PostgreSQL.
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