On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:35:41AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> FHS or no FHS, I would think that the preferred arrangement would be to
> keep Postgres' config files in a postgres-owned subdirectory, not
> directly in /etc. That way you need not be root to edit them. (My idea
Besides, what are you going to do for people installing on a box
where they don't have root? Are they going to need a whole mess of
extra directories in their private copy?
> of an editor, Emacs, always wants to write a backup file, so I dislike
> having to edit files that live in directories I can't write.)
>
> Here's a pretty topic for a flamewar: should it be /etc/postgres/ or
> /etc/postgresql/ ?
Wow, two flamewar topics in one mail. I'm impressed.
Andrew "ed is the one true editor" Sullivan
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