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Re: location of the configuration files

Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>

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From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Peter Bierman <bierman@apple.com>
Cc: mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-02-13T13:09:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Peter Bierman wrote:

> What do you gain by having the postmaster config and the database
> data live in different locations?

You can then standardize a location for the configuration files.

Everybody has room in /etc for another 10K of data. Where you have
room for something that might potentially be a half terrabyte of
data, and is not infrequently several gigabytes or more, is pretty
system-depenendent.

cjs
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