On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:49:21PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of lun oct 03 16:09:08 -0300 2011: > > > Yes, auto-creation of symlinks would be useful, but at that point pg_ctl > > and pg_upgrade would have to use the real data directory, so I again > > wonder what the config-only directory is getting us. > > Not mixing config stuff (in /etc per FHS) with server data (/var/lib, > again per FHS). It's Debian policy anyway. I don't judge whether this > is sane or not. See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard > > > Why were people not using pg_ctl? Because of the limitations which were > > fixed in PG 9.1? As Dave already said, windows already has to use pg_ctl. > > As I said, Debian has their own version pg_ctlcluster because of their > work to allow multiple major versions to work simultaneously in the same > server. I dunno what about Gentoo.
I implemented separated configuration and data directories to adhere to FHS. Actually, I had a bug on bugs.gentoo.org -- again, actually, there have been a few bugs over the years -- requesting that I make PostgreSQL adhere to the FHS. I made it work using pg_ctl. The more curious among you can take a look at the initscripts and related config files from my devspace. [1] '/etc/init.d/postgresql-9.0 restart' will actually call stop() and start(). Otherwise, I've mostly paralleled initscript functionality with the functionality of pg_ctl. Multiple initscripts are installed side-by-side to control multiple major versions. 1. http://dev.gentoo.org/~titanofold/ -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Gentoo Linux Developer Email : titanof...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0
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