| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Bernd Helmle" <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Bug in WAL backup documentation |
| Date: | 2006-11-05 16:10:13 |
| Message-ID: | 14003.1162743013@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 13:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Looking back in the archives, I note that one of the arguments for
>> making the server use relative paths everywhere was so that it'd be
>> robust against things like DBAs moving directories that contain live
>> postmasters. If we provide a %P option, or otherwise encourage people
>> to write scripts that depend on the absolute path of $PGDATA, we'd lose
>> some of this robustness.
> I think I can fulfil Bernd, Florian and Martijn's wishes by supplying an
> additional substitutable parameter %d which is replaced by the DataDir.
This fails to respond to the concern that DataDir might be out-of-date.
regards, tom lane
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