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Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 13:13:52 -0500
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Subject: Re: Documentation for building with meson
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, "Andres Freund"
 <andres@anarazel.de>, "samay sharma" <smilingsamay@gmail.com>
From: "Tristan Partin" <tristan@neon.tech>
Cc: "Justin Pryzby" <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, "Nazir Bilal Yavuz"
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On Wed Apr 12, 2023 at 4:19 PM CDT, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 11.04.23 19:18, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> Subject: [PATCH v9 2/5] Add data layout options sub-section in install=
ation
> >>   docs
> >>
> >> This commit separates out blocksize, segsize and wal_blocksize
> >> options into a separate Data layout options sub-section in both
> >> the make and meson docs. They were earlier in a miscellaneous
> >> section which included several unrelated options. This change
> >> also helps reduce the repetition of the warnings that changing
> >> these parameters breaks on-disk compatibility.
> >=20
> > Makes sense. I'm planning to apply this unless Peter or somebody else h=
as
> > further feedback.
>
> I'm okay with patches 0001 through 0004.
>
> I don't like 0005.  I think we should drop that for now and maybe have a=
=20
> separate discussion under a separate heading about that.

With regard to 0005, perhaps it makes the most sense to use the XDG
Directory Specification as an example. Install into ~/.local or
~/.local/postgres (as the Meson default prefix is). Put the data into
~/.var/lib/postgres or something similar.

--=20
Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)