"Joost Kraaijeveld" <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl> writes:
> I checked all this with another Debian box which has a slightly other
> PostgreSQL version and there it works as advertised. So PostgreSQL
> 8.0.3-7 works with symlinked pg_xlog directory and PostgreSQL 8.0.3-15
> does not.
Seems *highly* unlikely, though I suppose you could ask the Debian
maintainer what he changed between -7 and -15.
regards, tom lane