Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.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.
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.
regards, tom lane