Re: initdb change

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:04:01 -0700
David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:

> > > When -X is set to "existing", it would check whether pg_xlog is a
> > > directory and the only thing in $PGDATA.  One way to do that is to
> > > add a new return code to check_data_dir() and a new branch of the
> > > case statement after it's called.
> > 
> > Why is this useful?  It seems like just extra complication.

At no time should I ask I DBA to do this:

service postgresql stop
mv /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_xlog /xlogs/pg_xlog
ln -sf /xlogs/pg_xlog /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_xlog
service postgresql start

We either need to provide a way to initialize it at initdb, allow
xlogs to be in table space or add a GUC for the location.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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