Re: PGDATA - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David G Johnston
Subject Re: PGDATA
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Msg-id 1418866668105-5831210.post@n5.nabble.com
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In response to PGDATA  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
List pgsql-general
Adrian Klaver-4 wrote
> Just out of curiosity is there a reason PGDATA is not listed with the
> other environment variables here?:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/libpq-envars.html

Yes, because PGDATA is not a client concern and thus is not something that
libpq cares about.

Clients only care about the public interface the server offers - stuff that
is socket related or that aids in identifying itself.

David J.






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