Re: Hot standby and synchronous replication status

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hot standby and synchronous replication status
Date: 2009-08-12 01:47:21
Message-ID: 3f0b79eb0908111847r47bbb643t1210330d7ecdbafe@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Robert Haas<robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I don't really know how you COULD pick a safe default location.
> Presumably any location that's in the default postgresql.conf file
> would be under $PGDATA, which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole
> thing.  In other words, you're always going to have to move it anyway,
> so why bother with a default that is bound to be wrong?

Or, how about introducing the new option which specifies the archive location
for initdb, like -X option. This location is used to set up the default
archive_command by initdb. Though I'm not sure if this meets the need.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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