Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files, how about this: - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
Subject Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files, how about this:
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Msg-id 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA41EB46E@m0114.s-mxs.net
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>  > Changing the default data location at this point would imho 
>  > be a major hassle for those actually using the default.
>  > Thus I object to changing it.
> 
> The idea is to have the default configuration file location 
> possible to change at configure time.

I totally support that, and think sysconfdir is a good default.

> If whoever compiles PostgreSQL does not specify different 
> location, I guess /usr/local/pgsql/data will be the default location.

That is what I meant, but proposed was statedir (== /usr/local/pgsql/var).

Andreas


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