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Re: WAL file location

Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>

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From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-01T15:35:38Z
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:20:35PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> I am wondering why we even want to specify the WAL location anywhere
> except as a flag to initdb.  If you specify a location at initdb time,
> it creates the /xlog directory, then symlinks it into /data.

I thought the whole point of it was to make it easy to move WAL. 
Which is certainly a Good Thing.

A

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