Re: Relocatable installs

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > If we determine the default data directory off the configure option 
> > --localstatedir then we can simply use the same mechanisms that have 
> > been discussed for determining all the other directories at run time 
> > relative to the binaries.
> 
> Agreed, we could let the default location of PGDATA work that way.
> We still need the -D runtime option, since (unlike libdir and sharedir)
> there could be multiple datadirs being run by a single set of install
> files.

Has there been any more thought on this?  Do folks want PGDATA/-D to
default to the relocatable ../data, but it can be overridden?  Also, if
you specify a data dir during configure, that is used instead.

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