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Re: XLogDir

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

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Date: 2002-08-17T03:55:43Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > A recent change made XLogDir dynamically sized.  There was a question of
> > whether this was a good idea since there are lots of other places that
> > use MAXPGPATH.
> 
> > I have now found that pg_resetxlog doesn't compile anymore because
> > XLogDir is a char* now instead of a char[].
> 
> > Should I fix pg_resetxlog or revert the XLogDir change in the backend.
> 
> Revert.  The XLogDir change was incomplete and basically useless to
> start with ...

Yea, but it was tied into the PGXLOG commit.  Thomas, what are we doing
with that?

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