On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:16:44AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Nor will I buy an argument that only a few developers have need for test > installations. Ordinary users will want to do that anytime they are > doing preliminary tests on a new PG version before migrating their > production database to it. To the extent that you make manual selection > of a nonstandard datadir location more difficult and error-prone, you > are hurting them too.
Not only that. For safety's sake, you may need to run multiple postmasters on one machine (so that database user X can't DoS database user Y, for instance). And making that sort of production-grade work more difficult and error-prone would also be bad. A -- ---- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Liberty RMS Toronto, Ontario Canada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> M2P 2A8 +1 416 646 3304 x110 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])