On Jul 30, 2013 7:32 PM, "Josh Berkus" <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > > > I don't think you understood GSmith's argument. For Debian/Ubuntu > sysadmins, configuration files live in /etc/, *period*. Even ones which > were automatically generated. The packagers and scripters of that OS > have taken a significant amount of trouble to make that so, including > writing their own wrapper scripts around utilities for Postgres, Apache, > etc., in order to support putting all configuration files in /etc/. >
I used to be a Debian package maintainer. I packaged kerberos and afs and a number of smaller packages. I know why Debian separates config files. If a file is automatically maintained then it's internal program state just like the list of users, databases, tables, etc. Programs keep their state in /var. It would be just as wrong to put auto.conf in /etc as it is to put the existing postgresql.conf in PGDATA.
