Re: initdb and "exit_nicely"...

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:05:58AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Len Morgan" <len-morgan@crcom.net> writes:
> > RedHat based rpm installations create the postgres superuser account as
> > part of the process and set the home directory for this user to PG_DATA.
>
> To be blunt, that's *incredibly* brain dead.

Does Red Hat actually make the _data_ directory the home?  Debian avoids
this by making /var/lib/postgres the home, and data/ under that the PGDATA
directory.  It sure doesn't seem a good idea to be using PGDATA as a home
directory.

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