From: Gavan Schneider <list.pg.gavan@pendari.org>
To: Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org, "Gogala, Mladen" <gogala.mladen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reconfiguring active PostgreSQL instance
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:51:02 +1100
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On 22 Dec 2021, at 2:33, Holger Jakobs wrote:
> The path looks like it's a very unconventional installation. Usually, it should be something like /usr/local/... if it's on a unixoide system.
>
> Maybe it's a Mac. This should be mentioned in the question.
>
FWIW Mac is BSD Unix making /usr/local/… the place to put postgres etc.
As mentioned by OP the installation is custom so they may not have followed this convention on their *nix system, and, taking macOS as an example, installations into non standard directories can come against security features.
Regards
Gavan Schneider
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