> ------- Original Message -------
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: "Dave Page" <dpage@postgresql.org>
> Sent: 26/11/07, 22:02:09
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows
>
>
> I believe that that is talking specifically about shared libraries (or
> DLLs in Windows-speak), and not about configuration or data files.
> In particular, nothing under libdir would be a candidate to go under
> sharedir, nor vice versa, since the former is supposed to hold
> architecture-dependent files and the latter architecture-independent
> files.
Yes, I know. Peter seemed to be saying that nothing except postgres itself should be in *any* of the installation
directories(he called them 'private' directories by which I imagine he meant an install in /usr/local/pgsql/ vs
/usr/local,or more specifically the case when $libdir is something like /usr/lib/postgresql)
/D