Re: WAL file location

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info> writes:
> > a.	The system uses no environment variables at all; some other
> > method is used to determine where the config file is (maybe compiled
> > into the code);
> 
> > If I understand it, nobody is really arguing for (a).
> 
> I am.  I see absolutely no advantage in depending on environment

Ok, how then would one set the location of the config file?  Though I
mentioned it, I don't really thing that compiled-in is an option: I
don't want to have to have four versions of the binary to just to run
four postmasters on four ports.  Maybe a --with-config-file option to
start the postmaster?

And I presume this is all for the server only, right?  Nobody is
talking about getting rid of (for instance) $PGPORT for clients,
right?  (I'm sorry if I seem obtuse, or if this is really none of my
business, since I'm not offering to fix this up, since I can't.  But
I'm very keen to make sure that administration of large postgres
installations doesn't become terribly difficult.)

A

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