Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:08:44PM -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:
>>
>> Currently the Postgresql-server packages keep are setting the user
>> pgsql's home under ${PREFIX}.
>>
>> Since "files that may be modified after installation" should go in
>> $VARBASE, shouldn't we do this?
> 
> Fully agreed, for the obvious reasons (also I like to mount /usr r-o).
> I personally put it under ${VARBASE}/db, usually.

hier(7) on NetBSD says:

/var/	multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files

That doesn't sound at all like what a database should be.  I picked 
${PREFIX} because that's the only place that pkgsrc really "owns" and 
controls.  In any case, it's usually irrelevant... the pgsql rc.d script 
always uses the home directory that's set in /etc/passwd for the 
location of the database.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>