Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Marc's idea of matching signature files would be a better >> safety-checking mechanism than just making the data directory's xlog >> link hard to get at.
> I would like to have Marc's safeguards as well. Yeah, I was lukewarm about that at first, but the more I think about it the better it seems. That does not change my opinion about the -X/PGXLOG switch though --- having a backup safety check is not an excuse for having a fundamentally insecure set of startup options. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]