Re: WAL file location
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Greg Copeland <greg@CopelandConsulting.Net>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-03T11:42:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> [Symlinks] don't scale,
Given that we have only one directory for the log file, this would not
appear to be a problem.
> they are not portable,
That's certainly a problem if we intend to run on systems without them.
> and it is difficult for
> applications (like the Postgres backend) to know that they are dealing
> with a simlink or a real file.
Er...that's the whole point of symlinks.
Not that I really care either way about the whole issue, so long
as we do *something*.
cjs
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