"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 13:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Looking back in the archives, I note that one of the arguments for >> making the server use relative paths everywhere was so that it'd be >> robust against things like DBAs moving directories that contain live >> postmasters. If we provide a %P option, or otherwise encourage people >> to write scripts that depend on the absolute path of $PGDATA, we'd lose >> some of this robustness.
> I think I can fulfil Bernd, Florian and Martijn's wishes by supplying an > additional substitutable parameter %d which is replaced by the DataDir. This fails to respond to the concern that DataDir might be out-of-date. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings