I would like to know how to move this item forward.
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
> > ... just for the record I'm with the "don't
> > use an environment variable" crowd here, too. It's way, way to easy
> > to start up with the wrong setting in your environment.
>
> What he said ...
>
> > Oh, and yes, it does need to be changable after an initdb. Say you
> > start out with only one disk on your system, but add a second disk
> > later, and want to move the log to that?
>
> Sure, there should be *a* way to do that. It does not have to be as
> easy as "change an environment variable". And in fact the primary
> objection to this patch is exactly that it is *not* as easy as "change
> an environment variable" --- what you get if you just change your
> environment variable is not a moved xlog, but a broken database.
> Possibly an irredeemably broken database.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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