Re: PostgreSQL configuration

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > ... it isn't clear which files to touch.  After the reorganization it
> > would be:
> 
> >     PG_VERSION              global/                 postmaster.opts
> >     base/                   pg_clog/                postmaster.pid
> >     etc/                    pg_xlog/
> 
> > and /etc would be:
> 
> >     pg_hba.conf             pg_ident.conf           postgresql.conf
> 
> > which is much cleaner, I think, no?
> 
> I think if you spelled the subdir name "config" rather than "etc",
> it would be more obvious what's what.

OK.

> A further possibility is to move the runtime-changeable files
> (postmaster.pid and postmaster.opts) into still another subdirectory,
> but I'm not really in favor of that.  I think there might be some
> possibilities for cross-version confusion if we move the .pid interlock
> file.

Agreed.  That is too fancy.

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