Re: Big 7.1 open items

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-19 04:53:49
Message-ID: 200006190453.AAA02319@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> writes:
> > If they can move them around from within the db, they'll have no need to
> > move them around from outside the db.
> > I don't quite understand your devotion to using filesystem commands
> > outside the database to do database administration.
>
> Being *able* to use filesystem commands to see/fix what's going on is a
> good thing, particularly from a development/debugging standpoint. But
> I agree we want to have within-the-system admin commands to do the same
> things.

Yes, I like to have db commands to do it. I just like to allow things
outside too, if possible. It also prevents things from getting out of
sync because the database doesn't need to store the symlink location.

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