Re: Big 7.1 open items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Date: 2000-06-19T04:53:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com> writes:
> > If they can move them around from within the db, they'll have no need to
> > move them around from outside the db. 
> > I don't quite understand your devotion to using filesystem commands
> > outside the database to do database administration.
> 
> Being *able* to use filesystem commands to see/fix what's going on is a
> good thing, particularly from a development/debugging standpoint.  But
> I agree we want to have within-the-system admin commands to do the same
> things.

Yes, I like to have db commands to do it.  I just like to allow things
outside too, if possible.  It also prevents things from getting out of
sync because the database doesn't need to store the symlink location.

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