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Re: WAL file location

Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>

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From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-07-30T04:14:54Z
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> More generally, I do not like depending on postmaster environment
> variables --- our experience with environment variables for database
> locations has been uniformly bad....
> The existing secondary-location mechanism is horrible.  Please do not
> emulate it...

Right. I get really, really worried about security issues when I see
something like "just specify an environment variable." Who knows what
the heck else is in the environment.

I'd really like to see that removed and replaced with a configuration file
or something similar.

cjs
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