Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> ...
> > I agree that if we could quickly come to a resolution about how this
> > ought to work, there's plenty of time to go off and implement it. But
> > (1) we failed to come to a consensus before, so I'm not optimistic
> > than one will suddenly emerge now; (2) we've got a ton of other issues
> > that we *need* to deal with before beta. This one does not strike me
> > as a must-fix, and so I'm loathe to spend much development time on it
> > when there are so many open issues.
>
> afaict someone else volunteered to do the work. There is no lack of
> consensus that this is a useful feature, at least among those who take
> responsibility to package PostgreSQL for particular platforms. How about
> letting them specify the requirements and if an acceptable solution
> emerges soon, we'll have it for 7.3...
Added to open items:
allow specification of configuration files in a different directory
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