Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files, how about this:

> I think the data directory should be explicitly configured by either the
> posgresql.conf file, environment variable (PGDATA), or through the command line
> option, but using the "configure" statedir isn't anything 
> anyone would object too.

Changing the default data location at this point would imho be a major hassle
for those actually using the default.
Thus I object to changing it.

Andreas