Re: PostgreSQL configuration

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)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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