Re: [PATCH] Recreate Missing WAL Directories (from TODO)

"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> This has been suggested before but I'm unconvinced that it's a good
>> idea. It's reasonably common for pg_xlog to be a symlink. If you
>> neglect to re-establish the symlink then what would happen is that xlog
>> gets recreated on the data disk, and with no notice you are running in
>> a degraded mode.

> Agreed on the basis that people sometimes forget to symlink. That's
> the reason why I was echoing a message. Initially the message was
> WARNING, but I degraded it to LOG.

Applied with minor stylistic tweaks and documentation update.

regards, tom lane