From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | Philip Yarra <philip(at)utiba(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: tablespaces and non-empty directories |
Date: | 2005-11-22 18:38:34 |
Message-ID: | 200511221838.jAMIcYF24288@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > Related question: are there plans afoot to allow specifying an alternate
> > location for pg_xlog (or pg_delete-me-not) to save doing the shutdown-DB, mv
> > directory to other disk, symlink, start-DB dance?
>
> People have discussed it but I don't know of anyone working on it.
TODO has:
* Allow the pg_xlog directory location to be specified during initdb
with a symlink back to the /data location
I think the only reason it is not done yet is because it is so easy to
do for admins, and it is impossible to do while the server is running.
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