Re: [HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile?

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in, Pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile?
Date: 2002-09-18 04:43:07
Message-ID: 3D88045B.FD6E337@Yahoo.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> > Which in this case is what puzzles me. We are only talking about a
> > simple GUC variable after all - I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing
> > it's not a huge effort to add one?
>
> Can we get agreement on that? A GUC for pg_xlog location? Much cleaner
> than -X, doesn't have the problems of possible accidental use, and does
> allow pg_xlog moving without symlinks, which some people don't like?
>
> If I can get a few 'yes' votes I will add it to TODO and do it for 7.4.

'yes' - make it one more GUC and done

Jan

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