Re: WAL file location

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WAL file location
Date: 2002-08-01 15:35:38
Message-ID: 20020801113538.C25604@mail.libertyrms.com
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:20:35PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> I am wondering why we even want to specify the WAL location anywhere
> except as a flag to initdb. If you specify a location at initdb time,
> it creates the /xlog directory, then symlinks it into /data.

I thought the whole point of it was to make it easy to move WAL.
Which is certainly a Good Thing.

A

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