Bruce Momjian said:
>
> I have generated the following patch that moves postmaster.pid into the
> configuration directory. pg_ctl only knows about the configuration
> directory because it can't read postgresql.conf, so it seems that is
> the right place to move it.
this seems wrong ... wouldn't it be better to teach pg_ctl at least enough
about the config file to enable it to find the data dir?
cheers
andrew