In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Sampson) wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Peter Bierman wrote: > >> What do you gain by having the postmaster config and the database >> data live in different locations? > > You can then standardize a location for the configuration files. > > Everybody has room in /etc for another 10K of data. Where you have > room for something that might potentially be a half terrabyte of > data, and is not infrequently several gigabytes or more, is pretty > system-depenendent.
Ah, but this has two notable problems: 1. It assumes that there is "a location" for "the configuration files for /the single database instance./" If I have a second database instance, that may conflict. 2. It assumes I have write access to /etc If I'm a Plain Old User, as opposed to root, I may only have read-only access to /etc. These conditions have both been known to occur... -- If this was helpful, <http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne> rate me http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/rdbms.html "Some people, when confronted with a Unix problem, think "I know, I'll use sed." Now they have two problems." -- Jamie Zawinski ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org