Bug 68363 – Unable to change PGDATA in postgres

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Bug 68363 - Unable to change PGDATA in postgres

Summary:	Unable to change PGDATA in postgres

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	postgresql (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2002-07-09 11:56 EDT by Jeremy Sanders
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:44 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-07-09 11:56:25 EDT
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Description Jeremy Sanders 2002-07-09 11:56:21 EDT

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Description of problem:
The way postgresql is currently packaged it is hard to change the location of
the database (i.e. PGDATA) without modifying the startup script (which will get
overwritten on updating).

A better way of setting PGDATA (rather than fixing it to /var/lib/pgsql) would
be to see what the home directory of the postgres user is set to and use that.

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-07-09 15:55:36 EDT

If you have a nice, clean patch which doesn't lead to problems for initscripts,
file ownership etc, you can attact it.

Other than that, I don't see a need and the current way works well - and handles
issues like recognizing older versions of the database and issueing approriate
warnings.

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