| From: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| 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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