Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Seems the proper default location is /usr/local/pgsql/config.  Anything
> > else and non-root people have trouble with the install.
> 
> I think it'd be reasonable for the source distribution to be set up
> to default to that, but the RPMs need not, since they're not intended
> to be installed non-root.

Let me add I think a separate /config directory is a good idea rather
than putting it in /data because when you do pg_dump, you don't need a
file system backup of '/data, except that you do need to backup those
config files because they are not part of the contents of pg_dump.  I
had to mention that particularly in my book, and it was kind of awkward.

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