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@@ -7503,3 +7503,65 @@ Mike Mascari
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+From pgsql-hackers-owner+M28774@postgresql.org Thu Sep 12 15:12:54 2002
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+To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
+cc: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>,
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+Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile? 
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+Comments: In-reply-to Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
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+Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:12:09 -0400
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+From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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+Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
+> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Justin Clift wrote:
+>> Am just wondering if we've ever considered adding a PGXLOG environment
+>> variable that would point to the pg_xlog directory?
+
+> IMHO, a much better way to support this is to put this information into
+> the config file. That way it can't easily change when you happen to, say,
+> start postgres in the wrong window.
+
+Yes.  We rejected environment-variable-based xlog location for reasons
+that apply equally well to Windows.  The xlog location *must* be stored
+in a physical file in the data directory; anything else is too unsafe.
+The current technology for that is a symlink.
+
+While it doesn't have to be a symlink as opposed to some sort of config
+file, I don't have the slightest problem with saying that we don't
+support relocation of xlog on older Windoid platforms.
+
+			regards, tom lane
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