Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src

Greg Copeland <greg@copelandconsulting.net>

From: Greg Copeland <greg@CopelandConsulting.Net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-13T05:12:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 23:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, seeing as no one voted, and only Tom and I objected originally, we
> > will keep the code as Thomas has applied it, namely that PGXLOG/-X is
> > recognized by initdb, postmaster, postgres, and pg_ctl.
> 
> We will?  It looks to me like Thomas lost the vote 2-to-1.
> 
> Unless there are more votes, I'm going to *insist* that this code be
> changed.  It's dangerous and offers no offsetting benefit.  XLOG
> location should be settable at initdb, noplace later.
> 


I think Tom is on to something here.  I meant to ask but never got
around to it.  Why would anyone need to move the XLOG after you've
inited the db?

Greg