On 13 Aug 2002, Greg Copeland wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 23:09, Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK, seeing as no one voted, and only Tom and I objected originally, we > > > will keep the code as Thomas has applied it, namely that PGXLOG/-X is > > > recognized by initdb, postmaster, postgres, and pg_ctl. > > > > We will? It looks to me like Thomas lost the vote 2-to-1. > > > > Unless there are more votes, I'm going to *insist* that this code be > > changed. It's dangerous and offers no offsetting benefit. XLOG > > location should be settable at initdb, noplace later. > > > > > I think Tom is on to something here. I meant to ask but never got > around to it. Why would anyone need to move the XLOG after you've > inited the db?
I just determined that disk I/O is terrible, so want to move the XLOG over to a different file system that is currently totally idle ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
