Hi,
My company is using PGDATA to store configuration files and the guc data_directory to give the path to the instance directory.
They would use it like this:
pg_ctl start -D <path to CONFDIR> -w
with this directory setup:
<somepath>/CONFDIR => postgresql.conf pg_hba.conf pg_ident.conf
<somepath>/SYSTEM => All the normal stuff in the postgres instance directory + recovery.conf recovery.done etc...
Is it commonly used ?
Thanks for your help / remarks / feedback.
Benoit.