Re: location of the configuration files

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Robert Treat wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:13, mlw wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>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.
>>    
>>
>
>Woh, how do we move some of those files into /etc or /var/run if we
>aren't running as root?  We certainly don't want to require that.  I
>guess /etc/postgresql will work if that directory is owned by the
>PostgreSQL superuser, but /var/run will be a problem.
>
>  
>
I don't think those files need to move. As I said in another post, they 
are postgres writable and should in the PostgreSQL data directory. 
However, I suppose, that those also could be configuration parameters? No?

PG_VERSION obviously should not move.
postmaster.opts gets created when postmaster is run, correct?

The only issue would be the PID file, and I don't have strong feelings 
about it, except that using a /var/run system will make running multiple 
postmasters a pain.