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Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-12-19T05:57:23Z
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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.

			regards, tom lane