Yes, perhaps a bad precedent. I have very rarely done this. I do have the patch here if anyone wants to use it. My guess is if someone implements it, it will be done only in initdb, and use symlinks, which you and Marc don't like, so we may be best leaving it undone for 7.3 and returning with a clear slate in 7.4.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Lockhart wrote: > > OK, with two people now asking to have the patch removed, and with no > > comment from Thomas, I have removed the patch. This removes XLogDir > > environment variable, and -X postmaster/postgres/initdb/pg_ctl flag. > > I have also removed the code that dynamically sized xlogdir. > > ... Back in town... > > Sorry to hear that this is the way it turned out. It is a bad precedent > imho, and I see no way forward on my interest in this area. Hopefully > someone else will pick it up; perhaps one of those so vehemently against > the details of this? > > - Thomas > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
