Re: Explicit config patch 7.2B4
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-12-17T20:58:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes: > Don't. I'd do it in a heartbeat - I'd love to have /etc/postgresql/ > with defaults. Configuration files should not be located in /var. This problem has already been solved with symlinks a long time ago. Nothing new here. In fact, for users that are accustomed to the "original" source distribution it'd be a much easier-to-understand approach. (Whether it's "better" in the general sense is being discussed.) -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net