Re: Big 7.1 open items

The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>>>> new location for config files
>> 
>> can I suggest /etc/postgresql ?

> you can ... but everything related to postgresql has always been designed
> not to require any special permissions to install, and /etc/postgresql
> would definitely require root access to install :(

Even more to the point, the config files are always kept in the data
directory so that it's possible to run multiple installations on the
same machine.  Keeping the config files under /etc (or any other fixed
location) would destroy that capability.
        regards, tom lane