Re: location of the configuration files

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:45, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Now, on to this configuration discussion.  Seems moving the config file
> out of $PGDATA requies either:
> 	
> 	1) we specifiy both the config directory and the data directory on
> 	postmaster start
> 	
> 	2) we specify the pgdata directory inside postgresql.conf or
> 	other config file
> 
> Is this accurate?

The default start would read the config file from its predefined
location, set by ./configure.  No command line options would be
necessary for the postmaster to run, though they could be provided.

The config file should contain the pgdata location; this and any other
parameter should be overridden if a different location is specified by a
command-line option. I think the config should be able to contain all
information that can be specified on the command line (except, of
course, the location of the configuration file.)

-- 
Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight, UK                             http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839  932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C
                 ========================================
     "The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the
      world, and they that dwell therein."            
                                   Psalms 24:1