Tom Lane wrote: > > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You don't :vote: on stuff like this ... > > Why not, exactly? > > I wasn't aware that any of core had a non-vetoable right to apply > any patch we liked regardless of the number and strength of the > objections. AFAIK, we resolve differences of opinion by discussion, > followed by a vote if the discussion doesn't produce a consensus. > > It was pretty clear that Thomas' original patch lost the vote, or > would have lost if we'd bothered to hold a formal vote. I don't > see anyone arguing against the notion of making XLOG location more > easily configurable --- it was just the notion of making it depend > on environment variables that scared people.
And AFAICS it is scary only because screwing that up will simply corrupt your database. Thus, a simple random number (okay, and a timestamp of initdb) in two files, one in $PGDATA and one in $PGXLOG would be a totally sufficient safety mechanism to prevent starting with the wrong XLOG directory. Can we get that instead of ripping out anything? Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
