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Re: location of the configuration files

Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>

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From: mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>
To: Robert Treat <rtreat@webmd.net>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>, Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
Date: 2003-02-13T16:47:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

Robert Treat wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 09:23, mlw wrote: 
>  
>
>>I deal with a number of PG databases on a number of sites, and it is a
>>real pain in the ass to get to a PG box and hunt around for data
>>directory so as to be able to administer the system. What's really
>>annoying is when you have to find the data directory when someone else
>>set up the system.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>find / -name postgresql.conf -print
>

LOL, That is NOT an option.  It can take hours on some systems. 
Specifically, one of the systems is  freedb server, it has over 300,000 
files in a directory tree.