"Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This has been suggested before but I'm unconvinced that it's a good
>> idea.  It's reasonably common for pg_xlog to be a symlink.  If you
>> neglect to re-establish the symlink then what would happen is that xlog
>> gets recreated on the data disk, and with no notice you are running in
>> a degraded mode.

> Agreed on the basis that people sometimes forget to symlink.  That's
> the reason why I was echoing a message.  Initially the message was
> WARNING, but I degraded it to LOG.

Applied with minor stylistic tweaks and documentation update.

                        regards, tom lane

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