Re: WAL file location

scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>

From: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>

To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2002-08-02T19:07:14Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Thomas Lockhart 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.
> > Does this have any negative implications for Win32 ports?
> 
> Sure. the symlinks thing was just a suggestion. Everything else is
> portable for sure... Or is there some other area you are concerned
> about?

NTFS does support symlinks.  It's just not very well known, but the gnu 
utilities for windows can let you create soft links.  

Scott Marlowe