Re: WAL file location

Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> > Having said all that, I still believe that this is something tailor-made for
> > postgresql.conf.
>
> Well, exactly. Regardless of how serious you may think the security
> argument is, it still remains that a config-file entry seems the ideal
> way to do it. I can't see any good argument in favor of relying on
> environment variables instead. They don't bring any new functionality
> to the party; and we have an awful lot of work invested in putting all
> sorts of functionality into the GUC module. I think that doing
> configuration-like stuff outside the GUC framework is now something that
> we should resist --- or at least have a darn good reason for it when we
> do it.

Thomas, are you going to extend this to locations for any table/index?
Seems whatever we do for WAL should fix in that scheme.

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