Re: Configurable path to look up dynamic libraries

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes:
> > While on the subject of postgresql conf... shouldn't it be in
> > sysconfdir instead of the database directory?
> 
> No.  That would (a) not allow different postmasters to have different
> config files;

You could search in a path... first sysconfdir, then datadir. 

> (b) not allow a person to create an unprivileged
> installation (assuming that sysconfdir is root-owned).

Sysconfdir defaults to $prefix/etc, so that's not a problem.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.