Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> As of CVS tip, if you are using the config-file-location-changing
> >> features, anybody can find out the data directory location via
> >> "show pgdata";
>
> > Btw., couldn't we come up with a more descriptive parameter name than
> > "pgdata"?
>
> Sure. Actually it was just bothering me that "-c pgdata" didn't mean
> quite the same thing as setting PGDATA in the environment. Do you like
> "data_dir" or "data_directory" for the GUC variable?
I was going to suggest 'data_dir' but I see 'directory' is fully spelled
out in all other GUC variables in postgresql.conf, so let's use
'data_directory'.
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