Re: location of the configuration files

Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>

From: mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>

To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>

Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>, Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>, Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>

Date: 2003-02-13T19:51:27Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers


Robert Treat wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:13, mlw wrote:
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>>My patch only works on the PostgreSQL server code. No changes have been
>>made to the initialization scripts.
>>
>>The patch declares three extra configuration file parameters:
>>hbafile= '/etc/postgres/pg_hba.conf'
>>identfile='/etc/postgres/pg_ident.conf'
>>datadir='/RAID0/postgres'
>>
>>    
>>
>
>If we're going to do this, I think we need to account for all of the
>files in the directory including PG_VERSION, postmaster.opts,
>postmaster.pid. In the end if we can't build so that we are either fully
>FHS compliant and/or LSB compliant, we've not done enough work on it.
>
>Robert Treat
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postmaster.opts, PG_VERSION, and postmaster.pid are not configuration 
parameters.

PG_VERSION is VERY important, it is how you know the version of the 
database.
Postmaster.pid is a postgres writable value
AFAIK, postmaster.opts is also a postgres writable value.