On Thursday, November 08, 2012 5:24 AM Greg Smith wrote: > On 11/2/12 11:17 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > -Add a configuration subdirectory to the default installation. > > Needs to follow the config file location, so things like the > > Debian relocation of postgresql.conf still work. Maybe it has > zero > > files; maybe it has one that's named for this purpose, which > > defaults to the usual: > > > > What do you mean by "needs to follow"? In particular, do you mean that > > it should be relative to postgresql.conf? I think that would actually > be > > a *problem* for any system that moves the config file away, like > debian, > > since you'd then have to grant postgres write permissions on a > directory > > in /etc/... > > I should have just said that the rules for the directly location are the > ones implied by the include-dir feature. > > My understanding is that Debian Postgres installs already had writable > config files in etc, so that you can modify the postgresql.conf, > pg_hba.conf, etc. Here's a Squeeze server running the stock 8.4 plus > 9.1 from backports, and /etc/postgresql/<version>/<cluster> is writable > by the postgres user: > > $ ls -ld /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/ > drwxr-xr-x postgres postgres /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/ > > $ ls -ld /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/ > drwxr-xr-x postgres postgres /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/ > > $ ls -ld /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf > -rw-r--r-- postgres postgres /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf > > $ ls -ld /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf > -rw-r--r-- postgres postgres /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf
So is it okay if we have absolute path of config directory in postgresql.conf? With Regards, Amit Kapila. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
