Tom Lane wrote: > The thing I like about the relative-path idea is that it actually > improves and extends our existing ability to support multiple > installs. I wonder whether we could even allow PGDATA to default > to a relative path (../data)?
Doesn't work very well when you install into /usr/bin ... If we determine the default data directory off the configure option --localstatedir then we can simply use the same mechanisms that have been discussed for determining all the other directories at run time relative to the binaries. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org