| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(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 backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke |
| Date: | 2002-08-14 02:07:14 |
| Message-ID: | 20020813215618.A35100-100000@mail1.hub.org |
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> If you move pg_xlog, you have to create a symlink in /data that points
> to the new location. Initdb would do that automatically, but if you
> move it after initdb, you would have to create the symlink yourself.
> With Thomas's current code, you would add/change PGXLOG instead to point
> to the new location, rather than modify the symlink.
Right, but if the use of PGXLOG/-X it make sense then tryin got document
"hey, if you move pg_xlog, go into this directory and change the symlink
to point to hte new locaiton" ... as I said, I do not like symlinks ...
> Uh, seems it could get messy, but, yea, that would work. It means
> adding a file to pg_xlog and /data and somehow matching them. My
> feeling was that the symlink was unambiguous and allowed for fewer
> mistakes. I think that was Tom's opinion too.
Hrmmm ... how about some sort of 'tag' that gets written to the xlog
file(s) themselves instead?
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