"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> This has been suggested before but I'm unconvinced that it's a good
>> idea. It's reasonably common for pg_xlog to be a symlink. If you
>> neglect to re-establish the symlink then what would happen is that xlog
>> gets recreated on the data disk, and with no notice you are running in
>> a degraded mode.
> Agreed on the basis that people sometimes forget to symlink. That's
> the reason why I was echoing a message. Initially the message was
> WARNING, but I degraded it to LOG.
Applied with minor stylistic tweaks and documentation update.
regards, tom lane