Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oliver Elphick
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src
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Msg-id 1029247185.1135.592.camel@linda
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 14:24, Tom Lane wrote:
...
> But there's more than one way to record the xlog location in the data
> directory.  If you don't like a symlink, what of putting it in
> postgresql.conf as a postmaster-start-time-only config option?

Please don't!

The Debian package at least provides a default postgresql.conf and it
will be all too easy for someone installing an updated package to let
the default file overwrite the existing configuration.  That could be
disastrous.

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