Re: Configurable path to look up dynamic libraries

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On Tuesday 15 May 2001 18:27, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Lamar Owen writes:
> > What's the opposition about?

> The /etc directory is for system configuration files.  The
> $PGDATA/postgresql.conf file is a database cluster configuration file.

Which is part of the system.  /etc/mail/aliases is only an email config, but 
is system-wide.  I have multiple bind instances running on my main server -- 
it was relatively easy to tell bind through named.conf where to find the 
particular zone files for the private side (I run NAT here and must maintain 
an inside global DNS as well as an inside local DNS), and it was just as easy 
to tell named to use named.conf.private for the private DNS side.  And all 
those files reside in /etc/named and /etc/named.private.

> The RPM set only allows one database cluster per system, so it's
> appropriate to think of this database cluster as "the" system database
> cluster, and of the associated configuration file as "the" system
> configuration file.  But since the RPM set creates this situation it is
> only fitting that the RPM set resolve this situation.  For example, it
> would be trivial to symlink the file /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
> to somewhere in /etc.

I can resolve the RPM issues.  But, since talk is being made of changing the 
core behavior, I wanted to weigh in on what I'd like to see.  I may not have 
high expectations of what I am likely to actually see happen, but the hope IS 
there.  If the changes are shot down, I can still cope with the issue.

But symlinks aren't the fix, as this is not an RPM-only issue -- there are 
more than just RPM users who might want an FHS-compliant installation with 
the capacity for multiple postmasters.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11
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