postgresql, again.

[ratler at lunar-linux.org]

Well if you look at MySQL we put the databases in /var/lib/mysql, so maybe
you should put psql there as well.

/Ratler

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Dennis Veatch wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 01:38 pm, Nick Hudson wrote:
> > good god I am a freak ... saw=say
> >
> > nick
> >
>
> I was able to translate. Anyway. Here is the module. For now it adds tcl, perl
> and python as optional dependencies. It lins fine for me. The only problem
> someone may have would be with a lin of those options.
>
> The next step will be to add a init script for boot and initialize the
> database. Oh and to give the choice of where you want the database to live.
> Redhat and Mandrake place it in /var. Which seems kind of an odd place to put
> such a thing. Is there an alternate default location prefered or is /var ok
> for that?
>
> All this is as mentioned before, to prep postgresql to use postgis as a
> plugin. Then there will be some additonal things for postgis and the things
> it needs. Postgis has to be compiled with the postgres source tree. So my
> thinking is not to bother with a postgis module. It (postgis) will have to be
> an optional dependency of postgresql because of that.
>
> Anyway that's what I have in mind and heres the intitial changes attached.
>
>
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