| From: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src |
| Date: | 2002-08-13 13:14:34 |
| Message-ID: | 1029244475.74400.30.camel@jester |
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> But I really seriously feel that this feature is a bad idea as presently
> implemented. If necessary, I'll volunteer to change it the way I think
> it should be (viz, initdb can set up a symlink to a specified xlog
> directory; no change from previous behavior anywhere else).
Neither solution is a particularly good one.
Symlinks seem to break all over the place (windows, novell, os/2),
environment variables are clumsy, arguments are easily forgotten by a
new admin starting up the system manually without reading documentation
first, and postgresql.conf changes are implemented via HUP (which we
don't want -- has to be a full restart?).
I'm going to vote a postgresql.conf entry similar to the LC_ vars thats
initialized by initdb BUT is configurable with a big warning above it
describing what needs to be done when changing it.
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