Discourage splitting pg_wal directory - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Discourage splitting pg_wal directory
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Msg-id CAKAnmmL31OAwXdAe8CCp0URB67cP8fAOHpsdiaoqXbcGOcvy+Q@mail.gmail.com
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Someone pointed out this morning that we still have this in our docs:

"It is advantageous if the WAL is located on a different disk from the main database files. This can be achieved by moving the pg_wal directory to another location (while the server is shut down, of course) and creating a symbolic link from the original location in the main data directory to the new location."

This is not as important as it used to be, and I would even hazard to say that we should not be encouraging it. There are still use cases for doing so, yes, but "advantageous" is too much. I played with some wording, but at the end of the day, I am thinking that we simply remove this paragraph entirely.

Cheers,
Greg





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