Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE> writes:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The default location is PREFIX/data; I don't think there is a configure
>> option to change that without setting --prefix.
> That's news to me. There is no default for the data storage location
> anywhere that I can see. You always need to use the -D option or set
> PGDATA in the environment.
Oh, you're right of course. My system behaves like there's a default,
but that's because I have PGDATA set in my .profile ;-)
*Should* there be a default location established by configure?
I think I'd prefer that to having the dependence on an environment var
... but on the other hand we couldn't really remove the envar without
breaking a lot of installations...
regards, tom lane