Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src
Date: 2002-08-13 13:59:45
Message-ID: 1029247185.1135.592.camel@linda
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On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 14:24, Tom Lane wrote:
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> But there's more than one way to record the xlog location in the data
> directory. If you don't like a symlink, what of putting it in
> postgresql.conf as a postmaster-start-time-only config option?

Please don't!

The Debian package at least provides a default postgresql.conf and it
will be all too easy for someone installing an updated package to let
the default file overwrite the existing configuration. That could be
disastrous.

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