
>  > Changing the default data location at this point would imho 
>  > be a major hassle for those actually using the default.
>  > Thus I object to changing it.
> 
> The idea is to have the default configuration file location 
> possible to change at configure time.

I totally support that, and think sysconfdir is a good default.

> If whoever compiles PostgreSQL does not specify different 
> location, I guess /usr/local/pgsql/data will be the default location.

That is what I meant, but proposed was statedir (== /usr/local/pgsql/var).

Andreas

Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:00:23 +0100
"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files, how about this: