The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> Just curious here ... there seems to have been *alot* of energy expended
> on this ... is there any reason why we don't just have a configuration
> option like other software has, that defaults to /tmp like we have it now,
> but that makes it easier for others to change it for their installs, as
> required?
We *have* such a configuration option, both compile-time and run-time,
as of 7.1. The argument is about what the default should be, and in
particular whether it's a good idea for certain binary distributions to
have a different default than other distributions ...
regards, tom lane