From: | Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: WAL file location |
Date: | 2002-07-30 04:14:54 |
Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.4.44.0207301314000.456-100000@angelic.cynic.net |
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> More generally, I do not like depending on postmaster environment
> variables --- our experience with environment variables for database
> locations has been uniformly bad....
> The existing secondary-location mechanism is horrible. Please do not
> emulate it...
Right. I get really, really worried about security issues when I see
something like "just specify an environment variable." Who knows what
the heck else is in the environment.
I'd really like to see that removed and replaced with a configuration file
or something similar.
cjs
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