Re: Hot standby and synchronous replication status

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hot standby and synchronous replication status
Date: 2009-08-13 17:36:07
Message-ID: 4A844F07.8060102@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> That was proposed and rejected quite a long time ago. We don't *want*
> people to be able to "just change a GUC" and have their xlog go
> somewhere else, because of the foot-gun potential. You need to be sure
> that the existing WAL files get moved over when you do something like
> that, and the GUC infrastructure isn't up to ensuring that.

Doesn't the same argument apply to data_directory?

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

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