Re: Fixed directory locations in installs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Fixed directory locations in installs
Date
Msg-id 200405021730.i42HUSs10584@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fixed directory locations in installs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Fixed directory locations in installs  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > AFAICS the sharedir will already be sufficiently checked by means of
> > initdb's check on the postgres.bki version marker.  In some sense, the
> > sharedir used by initdb is the *right* one for an installation by
> > definition --- I'm not even convinced that we should allow people to
> > fool with this after the fact.
> 
> Actually, looking at the present contents of the sharedir, I'm not even
> sure that the backend needs to access it at all.  Most of the files in
> there are used only by initdb.  The only thing that seems needed after
> initdb is unknown.pltcl, and I'd not have a problem with moving that to
> libdir.

Are you aware timezone is now in /share, at least in Win32, and maybe on
Unix some day?

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