Re: [HACKERS] Location of the configuration files, round 2

2003-02-15 Thread J. M. Brenner
mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am an old fashion UNIX guy, capability without enforcing policy! > Adding an ability is different than enforcing a policy. You can push this too far, though. Every capability that you add still complicates testing and documentation, even if very difficult t

Re: [HACKERS] Location of the configuration files, round 2

2003-02-14 Thread mlw
One of the things that I HATE about this discussion is that everyone wants to put limits on configurability. I am an old fashion UNIX guy, capability without enforcing policy! Adding an ability is different than enforcing a policy. All I any to do is add the capability of configuration in a way

[HACKERS] Location of the configuration files, round 2

2003-02-13 Thread Kevin Brown
Wow, there's been a lot of discussion on this issue! While it won't address some of the issues that have been brought up, there is one very simple thing we can do that will help sysadmins quite a lot: eliminate the postmaster's use of $PGDATA, and force the data directory to be specified on the c