Martin Coxall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Partially true. The FHS specifies that the /etc top layer is for system-own3d > stuff, but the subdirectories off it are explicitly used for user space programs > and, well, everything. (/etc/apache, /etc/postgres, /etc/tomcat3, > /etc/tomcat4...)
FHS or no FHS, I would think that the preferred arrangement would be to keep Postgres' config files in a postgres-owned subdirectory, not directly in /etc. That way you need not be root to edit them. (My idea of an editor, Emacs, always wants to write a backup file, so I dislike having to edit files that live in directories I can't write.) Here's a pretty topic for a flamewar: should it be /etc/postgres/ or /etc/postgresql/ ? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly