From:
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To:
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc:
Casey Duncan <casey(at)pandora(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>,
pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org,
Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
Subject:
Re: [PATCHES] xlog directory at initdb time
Date:
2007-01-02 20:21:01
Message-ID:
20070102202101.GB6589@alvh.no-ip.org (view raw or flat )
Thread:
2006-12-27 01:56:37 from Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
2006-12-27 21:34:04 from "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
2006-12-28 22:40:52 from Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
2007-01-02 10:43:53 from Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
2007-01-02 15:18:30 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2007-01-02 19:00:27 from Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
2007-01-02 19:43:54 from Casey Duncan <casey(at)pandora(dot)com>
2007-01-02 20:08:32 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2007-01-02 20:21:01 from Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2007-01-02 20:23:57 from Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
2007-01-03 08:52:29 from Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
2007-01-04 01:46:57 from Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
2007-01-04 03:42:04 from Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
2007-01-06 19:40:06 from Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Casey Duncan <casey(at)pandora(dot)com> writes:
> > I guess the downside there is that it won't work on platforms that
> > don't support symlinks, whereas the postmaster switch would. Not that
> > I condone using such platforms ;^)
>
> Well, we already bit that bullet with respect to tablespaces, and
> haven't gotten much of any pushback. So I don't see it as a problem
> here.
Note that if Casey is thinking that Win32 does not support symlinks, he
is wrong (we do support tablespaces there).
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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