On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:53:43AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think it would be a real bad idea to put the postmaster and postgres
> executables right in /usr/local/bin. Perhaps it is time to think about
> a separate 'sbin' directory for programs that aren't supposed to be
> invoked by normal users. Those two, initdb, initlocation, and ipcclean
> could certainly go to sbin, also pg_id, maybe the create/drop scripts
> if you feel those are admin-only. Perhaps using a private sbin directory
> could eliminate the issue of needing to rename stuff.
generally there is a /usr/local/sbin or /usr/local/libexec for things like
postgres and postmaster.
at least on freebsd.
if we are gonna go this route, i would prefer that we not have any "special"
directories for postgres, other than the data directory.
a layout of:
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/include/pgsql
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/libexec
/usr/local/pgsql/data or /usr/local/pgsql
the last one could also be /home/pgsql or whatever.
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