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Re: Big 7.1 open items

Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@docs.uu.se>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, "Sergio A. Kessler" <sak@tribctas.gba.gov.ar>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-06-13T14:01:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

> > > >	new location for config files
> > > 
> > > can I suggest /etc/postgresql ?
> > 
> > you can ... but everything related to postgresql has always been designed
> > not to require any special permissions to install, and /etc/postgresql
> > would definitely require root access to install :(
> 
> ~postgres/etc ??

You need root access to create a postgres user. What's wrong with just
keeping it in $PGDATA and making symlinks whereever you would prefer it?

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