Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
> On Nov 8, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... It's reasonably common for pg_xlog to be a symlink.
> ISTM it'd be better still to have an official knob that allows you to
> determine where pg_xlog lives. ISTR discussion about that, but I
> don't see anything obvious in postgresql.conf or configure.
My recollection of the discussion is that we decided it was too
dangerous to make it "configurable" --- if you crash and restart and the
restart seizes on some other WAL directory to recover from, you're up
the proverbial creek.
(Come to think of it, this is also a reasonable argument for not letting
postmaster startup auto-create pg_xlog ...)
regards, tom lane
