On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 23:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, seeing as no one voted, and only Tom and I objected originally, we
> > will keep the code as Thomas has applied it, namely that PGXLOG/-X is
> > recognized by initdb, postmaster, postgres, and pg_ctl.
>
> We will? It looks to me like Thomas lost the vote 2-to-1.
>
> Unless there are more votes, I'm going to *insist* that this code be
> changed. It's dangerous and offers no offsetting benefit. XLOG
> location should be settable at initdb, noplace later.
>
I think Tom is on to something here. I meant to ask but never got
around to it. Why would anyone need to move the XLOG after you've
inited the db?
Greg