Re: [PATCH] Recreate Missing WAL Directories (from TODO) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCH] Recreate Missing WAL Directories (from TODO)
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Msg-id 25289.1226253125@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Recreate Missing WAL Directories (from TODO)  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
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"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> This has been suggested before but I'm unconvinced that it's a good
>> idea.  It's reasonably common for pg_xlog to be a symlink.  If you
>> neglect to re-establish the symlink then what would happen is that xlog
>> gets recreated on the data disk, and with no notice you are running in
>> a degraded mode.

> Agreed on the basis that people sometimes forget to symlink.  That's
> the reason why I was echoing a message.  Initially the message was
> WARNING, but I degraded it to LOG.

Applied with minor stylistic tweaks and documentation update.
        regards, tom lane


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