* Andres Freund (and...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > On 2014-01-16 11:35:00 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > * Andres Freund (and...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > > > So, if we want to support antything but a) relative to pgdata b) > > > relative to postgresql.conf it needs to be configurable at startup > > > time. Possibly with an added initdb switch to set the location. > > > > How would an initdb switch be better than an option in postgresql.conf? > > That sounds very backwards to me. If you meant a *postmaster*/pg_ctl > > option, that would make some sense to me, for folks who would like to > > avoid having a single postgresql.conf at all... Don't know if that > > would work today or not tho. > > Oh, I was thinking of initdb option being complementary to a > postgresql.conf option, just setting the path in the generated > postgresql.conf. That way distributions wouldn't have to muck around in > the generated config anymore.
Oh, sure, I can see that being useful.
Thanks,
Stephen
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