| From: | Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke |
| Date: | 2002-08-17 06:30:01 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.4.44.0208171528410.472-100000@angelic.cynic.net |
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Part of the reason we can't "just continue to use the symlink method" is
> that the PGXLOG environment variable situation is currently in CVS
> beyond initdb and in postmaster, postgres, and pg_ctl, so we do have to
> do something before 7.3 or we will have new environment variable
> handling in all those commands, and I don't think we have agreement on
> that.
Well, let's take it out, then, and use the symlink instead. It may
be in CVS now, but it's never been in a release, so there should
be no problem with removing it.
I think we've got some pretty strong opinions here that distributing
configuration information amongst multiple environment variables
is a Bad Idea.
cjs
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