Re: Explicit config patch 7.2B4

Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>

From: teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød )
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-12-17T16:26:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> That's been Mark's primary argument all along, and what it ignores is
> that the standard behavior for daemons is designed around the assumption
> that a system is running only one copy of any given daemon.  That's a
> fine assumption for most daemons but an unacceptable one for Postgres.

I don't think there would be that much problems with it, but you can
always have defaults in one location and allow them to be overridable.

> > However, it wouldn't surprize me  in the least for a distributor 
> > such as Red Hat to apply this patch.
> 
> Oh, I doubt it...
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 			Red Hat Database project

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.

regards, Trond Eivind Glomsrød
developer, Red Hat Linux developer
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.