Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
> > While on the subject of postgresql conf... shouldn't it be in
> > sysconfdir instead of the database directory?
> 
> No.  That would (a) not allow different postmasters to have different
> config files;

You could search in a path... first sysconfdir, then datadir. 

> (b) not allow a person to create an unprivileged
> installation (assuming that sysconfdir is root-owned).

Sysconfdir defaults to $prefix/etc, so that's not a problem.

-- 
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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