On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 11:50, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> While experimenting with this, I noted that the postmaster will not
> complain if postgresql.conf is not found --- though it will complain if
> it finds the file but can't read it (eg permission failures). It seems
> to me this is a bug, or at any rate a bad idea. There should be at least
> a warning message if the postgresql.conf file isn't found, and quite
> possibly the postmaster should refuse to start at all, on the grounds
> that you may have pointed it to a a bogus data directory.
>
> Any opinions about this out there?
>
IIRC this was going to be addressed in the "option to put config files
anywhere" patch. if not it should at least issue a warning. I'd
actually be in favor of explicit error/refusal to start if it didn't
seem so draconian.
Robert Treat
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