Horton

Re: location of the configuration files

Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>

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From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "J. M. Brenner" <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-13T23:07:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 13 Feb 2003, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> What your comments strongly suggest to me is that projects like
> PostgreSQL and pine, along with everything else, should comply with FHS;
> then there will be no confusion because everyone will be following the
> smae standards.  Messes arise when people ignore standards; we have all
> seen the dreadful examples of MySQL and the Beast, haven't we?

Actually FHS says the opposite.  If the distribution installs PostgreSQL
then the config files belong in /etc/postgresql.  If the admin does then
they belong in /usr/local/etc/postgresql.  FHS is out of their tree.  If
PostgreSQL or any other package is not critical to the basic operation of
the operating system, it's config files shouldn't be polluting /etc.

Vince.
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