Tom,
> That was proposed and rejected quite a long time ago. We don't *want*
> people to be able to "just change a GUC" and have their xlog go
> somewhere else, because of the foot-gun potential. You need to be sure
> that the existing WAL files get moved over when you do something like
> that, and the GUC infrastructure isn't up to ensuring that.
Doesn't the same argument apply to data_directory?
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