On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 14:24, Tom Lane wrote:
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> But there's more than one way to record the xlog location in the data
> directory. If you don't like a symlink, what of putting it in
> postgresql.conf as a postmaster-start-time-only config option?
Please don't!
The Debian package at least provides a default postgresql.conf and it
will be all too easy for someone installing an updated package to let
the default file overwrite the existing configuration. That could be
disastrous.
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