On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> I just helped another person yesterday who deleted their pg_xlog.
>
> The biggest reason I've seen pg_xlog get deleted is not because it's
> called pg_xlog, but because it's located someplace other than under
> the data directory and referenced via a symlink. Renaming it might
> still make it less likely for people to get trigger happy, though.
FWIW, I have seen a couple of times the same pattern as Craig:
"because it contains log in its name implies that removing it causes
no harm".
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Michael