Re: Relocatable installs

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> If we determine the default data directory off the configure option 
> --localstatedir then we can simply use the same mechanisms that have 
> been discussed for determining all the other directories at run time 
> relative to the binaries.

Agreed, we could let the default location of PGDATA work that way.
We still need the -D runtime option, since (unlike libdir and sharedir)
there could be multiple datadirs being run by a single set of install
files.
        regards, tom lane