Martin Coxall wrote:
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 20:28, Steve Crawford wrote:I would really like to push back this whole discussion to adding the ability the flexibility to configure PostgreSQ as opposed to determining a specific configuration strategy.
I don't see why we can't keep everyone happy and let the users choose the setup they want. To wit, make the following, probably simple, changes:/etc/postgres/postgresql.conf, if we want to be proper FHS-bitches.
1) Have postgresql default to using /etc/postgresql.conf
2) Add a setting in postgresql.conf specifying the data directory
3) Change the meaning of -D to mean "use this config file"
4) In the absence of a specified data directory in postgresql.conf, use the location of the postgresql.conf file as the data directory
Shouldn't it in that case default to, say /var/lib/postgres?
Adding the ability is easy. Let the distros determine their strategy. Trying to enforce one way over another will make this continue on forever and will never be solved.
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