database/postgres
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/postgres/postgres.git synced 2025-12-21 05:21:08 +03:00
Code Activity

Allow configuration files to be placed outside the data directory.

Browse Source 
Add new postgresql.conf variables to point to data, pg_hba.conf, and
pg_ident.conf files.

Needs more documentation.
This commit is contained in:
Bruce Momjian
2004-07-11 00:18:45 +00:00
parent b4a98c5fcc
commit 130f89e93f
10 changed files with 303 additions and 81 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

27
doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml
View File

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml,v 1.50 2004/06/21 04:06:04 tgl Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml,v 1.51 2004/07/11 00:18:41 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -67,15 +67,28 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
One <command>postmaster</command> always manages the data
from exactly one database cluster. A database cluster is a
collection of databases that is stored at a common file system
location. When the <command>postmaster</command> starts it needs to know the location
of the database cluster files (<quote>data area</quote>). This is
done with the <option>-D</option> invocation option or the
<envar>PGDATA</envar> environment variable; there is no default.
More than one <command>postmaster</command> process can run on a system at one time,
as long as they use different data areas and different
location. When the <command>postmaster</command> starts it needs
to know the location of the database cluster files (<quote>data
area</quote>).
More than one <command>postmaster</command> process can run on a system
at one time as long as they use different data areas and different
communication ports (see below). A data area is created with <xref
linkend="app-initdb">.
</para>
<para>
The <quote>data area</> is specified by the <option>-D</option> option
or the <envar>PGDATA</envar> environment variable; there is no default.
Typically, it points to a directory created by <application>
initdb</>. However, for administrative flexibility, you can
point to a directory containing only configuration files:
<filename>postgresql.conf</>, <filename>pg_hba.conf</>, and
<filename>pg_ident.conf</>. You can then set
<filename>postgresql.conf</>'s <varname>pgdata</> to point to the
data directory. You can also point just to the server configuration file
like <filename>postgresql.conf</> and set its variables to point to the
other configuration files and the data directory.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="app-postmaster-options">