Re: location of the configuration files

Kevin Brown wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > If you want ps to display the data dir, you should use -D.  Remember, it
> > is mostly important for multiple postmaster, so if you are doing that,
> > just use -D, but don't prevent single-postmaster folks from using
> > PGDATA.
> 
> Perhaps the best compromise would be to change pg_ctl so that it uses
> -D explicitly when invoking postmaster.  That's an easy change.
> 
> Could you describe how you and other developers use PGDATA?  I'm quite
> interested in knowing why there seems to be so much resistance to
> removing the "potential_DataDir = getenv("PGDATA");" line from
> postmaster.c.

I just set PGDATA in my login and I don't have to deal with it again.

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