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Re: location of the configuration files

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>

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From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>
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: 2003-02-13T19:30:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.

Robert Treat