On 8/26/16 11:58 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> $PGDATA/etc
>> $PGDATA/log
>> $PGDATA/run (lock files etc.)
>> $PGDATA/tmp
>> $PGDATA/var
>>
>> The names of all the things under "var" could still be refined, but it's
>> much less likely that users will confuse data with configuration or
>> plain logs under that scheme
>
> Interesting idea. I worry a bit that this might encourage distributions
> to split it up into different places though, and I'm not sure we want to
> encourage that..
They already do this. This would just formalize where we think
appropriate boundaries between the pieces are.
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