Re: RedHat startup script and environment variables in 7.1.2?

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:

> On Thursday 23 August 2001 14:36, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I have been thinking that perhaps we could rip out that mess when
> > we implement tablespaces.  Creation of a tablespace could be the
> > (superuser-only) operation that replaces definition of an
> > alternate-location environment variable.
>
> This is the real solution, Tom.  Should developer time be spent on working
> out an interim solution when what everybody _really_ wants is tablespaces?

Of course, time is also a factor here... eg. being able to handle the
current options in config files for 7.2 still makes sense if
tablespaces won't make it until 7.3 or later.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.