On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > I've developed patches to be able to specify the location of the WAL > directory, with the default location being where it is now. The patches > define a new environment variable PGXLOG (a la PGDATA) and postmaster, > postgres, initdb and pg_ctl have been taught to recognize a new command > line switch "-X" a la "-D".
What's the advantage of this over just using a symlink? > I'm intending to head towards finer control of locations of tables and > indices next by implementing some notion of named storage area, perhaps > including the "tablespace" nomenclature.... This I would really love to have. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]