Re: location of the configuration files

> Well, to the extent that you're serious, you understand that 
> a lot of people feel that /usr/local should be reserved for 
> stuff that's installed by the local sysadmin, and your
> vendor/distro isn't supposed to be messing with it. 
> 
> Which means if the the vendor installed Postgresql (say, the
> Red Hat Database) you'd expect config files to be in /etc.
> If the postgresql is compiled from source by local admin, 
> you might look somewhere in /usr/local.

Indeed. For better or worse, there is a Filesystem Hierarcy Standard,
and most of the important Linux distros, BSDs and some legacy Unixen
stick to it, so so should we.

Configuration files should be in /etc/postgresql/, or at the very least
symlinked from there.

Martin