PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook
by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, Sudheer Kumar Meesala, Sheldon Strauch
How it works...
Even though the Debian/Ubuntu and Red Hat file layouts are different, they both follow the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), so neither layout is wrong.
The Red Hat layout is simpler and easier to understand. The Debian/Ubuntu layout is more complex, but it has different and more adventurous goals. The Debian/Ubuntu layout is similar to the Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) of other database systems. As pointed out earlier, the goals are to provide a file layout that will allow you to have multiple PostgreSQL database servers on one system and to allow many versions of the software to exist in the filesystem at once.
Again, the layouts for the Windows and OS X installers are different. Multiple database clusters ...
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