On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:51, mlw wrote: > > > Robert Treat wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:13, mlw wrote: > > > > My patch only works on the PostgreSQL server code. No changes have been > > made to the initialization scripts. > > > > The patch declares three extra configuration file parameters: > > hbafile= '/etc/postgres/pg_hba.conf' > > identfile='/etc/postgres/pg_ident.conf' > > datadir='/RAID0/postgres' > > > If we're going to do this, I think we need to account for all of the > > files in the directory including PG_VERSION, postmaster.opts, > > postmaster.pid. In the end if we can't build so that we are either fully > > FHS compliant and/or LSB compliant, we've not done enough work on it. > > > postmaster.opts, PG_VERSION, and postmaster.pid are not configuration > parameters. >
So? I'm not saying they all have to be moved, just they all need to be accounted for. > PG_VERSION is VERY important, it is how you know the version of the > database. > Postmaster.pid is a postgres writable value > AFAIK, postmaster.opts is also a postgres writable value. > IIRC the postmaster.pid file should be in /var/run according to FHS, I'm not sure about postmaster.opts though... Again, if we're going to make a change, let's make sure we think it through. Robert Treat ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
