[luau] Postgres
    Warren Togami 
    warren at togami.com
       
    Wed Jul  2 20:52:00 PDT 2003
    
    
  
>> I would like to store the data in a directory such as /www/db
>> which would require me to tell the postmaster process on
>> startup to use the directive -D /www/db. Since this is all
>> automated, how do I go about doing that? And is the -I option
>> superfluous since it is started in runtime 3,5? Thanks for the
>> help!!
>
> The script /etc/init.d/postgresql reads a configuration file at
> /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/postgresql. To setup a custom path, you set
> the values for PGDATA, PGPORT, and PGOPTS. That being said, I
> would again advise you to stick with the default paths.
>
Yes, use default paths.  It is completely unnecessary and a bad idea to
make the data files within a web accessible directory.
Warren
    
    
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