Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src

On 13 Aug 2002, Greg Copeland wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 23:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > OK, seeing as no one voted, and only Tom and I objected originally, we
> > > will keep the code as Thomas has applied it, namely that PGXLOG/-X is
> > > recognized by initdb, postmaster, postgres, and pg_ctl.
> >
> > We will? It looks to me like Thomas lost the vote 2-to-1.
> >
> > Unless there are more votes, I'm going to *insist* that this code be
> > changed. It's dangerous and offers no offsetting benefit. XLOG
> > location should be settable at initdb, noplace later.
> >
>
>
> I think Tom is on to something here. I meant to ask but never got
> around to it. Why would anyone need to move the XLOG after you've
> inited the db?

I just determined that disk I/O is terrible, so want to move the XLOG over
to a different file system that is currently totally idle ...