Re: PGXLOG variable worthwhile?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PGXLOG variable worthwhile?
Date: 2002-09-17 05:19:38
Message-ID: 200209170519.g8H5Jcn27654@candle.pha.pa.us
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Robert Treat wrote:
> It seems all of this discussion misses the point. Either it has a large
> amount of impact and the idea gets rejected because of implementation
> issues, or it has little impact but it's nothing the core group wants to
> implement. If the problem is finding someone to implement it, it sounds
> like Justin has found such a person, so are we going to stand in his way
> while we wax poetic about OS religion and corporate philosophies or can
> he start submitting patches?

Actually, the work is minimal. Look at the commit I used to remove
PGXLOG, trim that to remove the changes to make the path name dynamic in
size (added too much complexity for little benefit) and hang the path
coding off a GUC variable rather than an environment variable.

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