> > 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.
>
> The idea is to have the default configuration file location
> possible to change at configure time.
I totally support that, and think sysconfdir is a good default.
> If whoever compiles PostgreSQL does not specify different
> location, I guess /usr/local/pgsql/data will be the default location.
That is what I meant, but proposed was statedir (== /usr/local/pgsql/var).
Andreas