Peter Bierman wrote:
While I don't like to use another product as an example, I think amongst the number of things Oracle does right is that it has a fairly standard way for an admin to find everything. All one needs to do is find the "ORACLE_HOME" directory, and everything can be found from there.At 12:31 AM -0500 2/13/03, mlw wrote:The idea that a, more or less, arbitrary data location determines the database configuration is wrong. It should be obvious to any administrator that a configuration file location which controls the server is the "right" way to do it.
Isn't the database data itself a rather significant portion of the 'configuration' of the database?
What do you gain by having the postmaster config and the database data live in different locations?
If, assume, PostgreSQL worked like every other system. It would have either an entry in /etc or some other directory specified by configure.
Somene please tell me how what I'm proposing differs from things like sendmail, named, or anyother standards based UNIX server?
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