Re: XLogDir - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: XLogDir
Date
Msg-id 200208170355.g7H3tho28700@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: XLogDir  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > A recent change made XLogDir dynamically sized.  There was a question of
> > whether this was a good idea since there are lots of other places that
> > use MAXPGPATH.
> 
> > I have now found that pg_resetxlog doesn't compile anymore because
> > XLogDir is a char* now instead of a char[].
> 
> > Should I fix pg_resetxlog or revert the XLogDir change in the backend.
> 
> Revert.  The XLogDir change was incomplete and basically useless to
> start with ...

Yea, but it was tied into the PGXLOG commit.  Thomas, what are we doing
with that?

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