Re: location of the configuration files

At 12:31 AM -0500 2/13/03, mlw wrote:
>The idea that a, more or less, arbitrary data location determines 
>the database configuration is wrong. It should be obvious to any 
>administrator that a configuration file location which controls the 
>server is the "right" way to do it.


Isn't the database data itself a rather significant portion of the 
'configuration' of the database?

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

-pmb