Re: location of the configuration files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Vince Vielhaber
Subject Re: location of the configuration files
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.44.0302131805020.96761-100000@paprika.michvhf.com
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In response to Re: location of the configuration files  (Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
Responses Re: location of the configuration files
Re: location of the configuration files
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On 13 Feb 2003, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> What your comments strongly suggest to me is that projects like
> PostgreSQL and pine, along with everything else, should comply with FHS;
> then there will be no confusion because everyone will be following the
> smae standards.  Messes arise when people ignore standards; we have all
> seen the dreadful examples of MySQL and the Beast, haven't we?

Actually FHS says the opposite.  If the distribution installs PostgreSQL
then the config files belong in /etc/postgresql.  If the admin does then
they belong in /usr/local/etc/postgresql.  FHS is out of their tree.  If
PostgreSQL or any other package is not critical to the basic operation of
the operating system, it's config files shouldn't be polluting /etc.

Vince.
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