Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-17T06:30:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Part of the reason we can't "just continue to use the symlink method" is
> that the PGXLOG environment variable situation is currently in CVS
> beyond initdb and in postmaster, postgres, and pg_ctl, so we do have to
> do something before 7.3 or we will have new environment variable
> handling in all those commands, and I don't think we have agreement on
> that.
Well, let's take it out, then, and use the symlink instead. It may
be in CVS now, but it's never been in a release, so there should
be no problem with removing it.
I think we've got some pretty strong opinions here that distributing
configuration information amongst multiple environment variables
is a Bad Idea.
cjs
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