Re: sysconfdir

On 4/23/01, 3:57:34 PM, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> wrote regarding
Re: [GENERAL] sysconfdir:

> > These files live in the data directory ($PGDATA), where initdb puts
them.

> I would like to see an option for putting the conf files under a
> directory in /etc at some point, with the ability to have more than
one
> installation available, as well.  That is one thing I am going to try
to
> get done during the 7.2 dev cycle -- RPM support for multiple
databases
> with tools to manage them.

Have the config files always lived in PGDATA or was that a new feature
of 7.1?  I always used the Debian packages till now but switched to
the source tarballs for 7.1 because I couldn't get the Debian packages
to install.

--

Bruce