Re: Moving pg_xlog

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Robert Inder <robert@interactive.co.uk> wrote:

I'd really like to read an explicit discussion of this in the official
documentation, rather than just glean what I can from answers to
questions.

The official documentation cannot have a dissertation on every combination of hardware, OS, file-system type, version of that file-system, and your usage pattern.  That is inherently the realm of the wiki or the blogs.

​The documentation has enough information at this level of detail that I wouldn't object to adding commentary addressing the above should someone take the time to write it.​

Given that the location of pg_xlog is not "configurable" placing such commentary in Server Configuration would be a no-go, however.  At a quick glance a new section under "Server Setup and Operation - Creating a Database Cluster" would probably be a better home.  It already discusses Secondary File Systems and in many ways this is just an extension of that discussion.

David J.