Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-12-19T06:07:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > Seems the proper default location is /usr/local/pgsql/config. Anything > > else and non-root people have trouble with the install. > > I think it'd be reasonable for the source distribution to be set up > to default to that, but the RPMs need not, since they're not intended > to be installed non-root. Let me add I think a separate /config directory is a good idea rather than putting it in /data because when you do pg_dump, you don't need a file system backup of '/data, except that you do need to backup those config files because they are not part of the contents of pg_dump. I had to mention that particularly in my book, and it was kind of awkward. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026