Re: location of the configuration files

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Browne [mailto:cbbrowne@acm.org]
> Sent: 13 February 2003 13:33
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files
>
>
> In the last exciting episode, cjs@cynic.net (Curt Sampson) wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Peter Bierman wrote:
> >
> >> What do you gain by having the postmaster config and the database
> >> data live in different locations?
> >
> > You can then standardize a location for the configuration files.
> >
> > Everybody has room in /etc for another 10K of data. Where you have
> > room for something that might potentially be a half
> terrabyte of data,
> > and is not infrequently several gigabytes or more, is pretty
> > system-depenendent.
>
> Ah, but this has two notable problems:
>
> 1.  It assumes that there is "a location" for "the configuration files
>     for /the single database instance./"
>
>     If I have a second database instance, that may conflict.
>
> 2.  It assumes I have write access to /etc
>
>     If I'm a Plain Old User, as opposed to root, I may only have
>     read-only access to /etc.
>
> These conditions have both been known to occur...

So we can presumably allow the location to be overridden with a
configure option?

Regards, Dave