Re: Big 7.1 open items

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Date: 2000-06-19T04:28:14Z
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.

			regards, tom lane