Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am Montag, 26. November 2007 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland: > >> I'm working on a piece of code for PostGIS to allow the loading of > >> projection configuration files from the share/postgresql directory, but > > > > The share directory is the wrong place for configuration files anyway. > > And moreover, non-PostgreSQL packages have no business putting files into > > PostgreSQL's private directories. > > That doesn't seem logical to me. We expect tsearch configuration files > to be put into $sharedir/tsearch_data, so why shouldn't PostGIS use a > similar approach to dealing with external configuration data?
Well, PostGIS is not PostgreSQL. And those files are not really configuration files, in the sense that the user configures them, but data files (or else they are in the wrong place). -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
