--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Iain wrote: > >> Is there a "standard" directory that people tend to use for this, > >> such as /var/local/pgsql/ ? > > > According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, program data should > be > > under /var/lib/<packagename>. Indeed, many binary distributions > use > > some variant of that as data directory location. > > The RPM distributions of PG use /var/lib/pgsql/data as the standard > PGDATA value. I'm not sure what Debian does but I think it might be > different. Also there has been some talk of including the major > release number (7.4, 8.0, etc) in the standard PGDATA value, to ease > migration across server versions by allowing different versions to be > installed concurrently.
Oh, this would be excellent! The fear of dealing with 2 different versions and the fear of overwriting something by mistake is what's keeping me from upgrading my PG installation. Otis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
