OK, with two people now asking to have the patch removed, and with no
comment from Thomas, I have removed the patch. This removes XLogDir
environment variable, and -X postmaster/postgres/initdb/pg_ctl flag.
I have also removed the code that dynamically sized xlogdir.
I will post the patch to patches, and keep the patch here in case it is
needed later.
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Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Part of the reason we can't "just continue to use the symlink method" is
> > that the PGXLOG environment variable situation is currently in CVS
> > beyond initdb and in postmaster, postgres, and pg_ctl, so we do have to
> > do something before 7.3 or we will have new environment variable
> > handling in all those commands, and I don't think we have agreement on
> > that.
>
> Well, let's take it out, then, and use the symlink instead. It may
> be in CVS now, but it's never been in a release, so there should
> be no problem with removing it.
>
> I think we've got some pretty strong opinions here that distributing
> configuration information amongst multiple environment variables
> is a Bad Idea.
>
> cjs
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