Re: config files in /data - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: config files in /data
Date
Msg-id 200005302325.TAA24960@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: config files in /data  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Seems we should have pg_hba.conf and other files in a separate
> > directory, not /data.
> 
> Why?
> 
> I don't see enough advantage in it to justify breaking people's
> existing administrative procedures.  You can bet there are folks
> out there whose scripts know where pg_hba.conf lives, for example.
> 

In describing how to do a backup, people have to backup
data/pg_hba.conf, but none of the others.  Seems strange that it is
mixed in with actual tables.

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