Re: [PATCH] Recreate Missing WAL Directories (from TODO)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Pg Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Recreate Missing WAL Directories (from TODO)
Date: 2008-11-10 01:06:51
Message-ID: 17233.1226279211@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> What if the the location was recorded in something that's not meant
> to be touched by users, such as pg_control? At that point we'd have a
> command for actually moving it.

[ shrug... ] Possible, perhaps, but I think we have more important
problems to expend development effort on. In particular the notion
of moving pg_xlog on-the-fly in a running database seems FAR more
difficult than it could possibly be worth.

regards, tom lane

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