Re: tablespaces and non-empty directories

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:38:34PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > > Related question: are there plans afoot to allow specifying an alternate
> > > location for pg_xlog (or pg_delete-me-not) to save doing the shutdown-DB, mv
> > > directory to other disk, symlink, start-DB dance?
> >
> > People have discussed it but I don't know of anyone working on it.
>
> TODO has:
>
> * Allow the pg_xlog directory location to be specified during initdb
> with a symlink back to the /data location
>
> I think the only reason it is not done yet is because it is so easy to
> do for admins, and it is impossible to do while the server is running.

Along those lines, is there anything else that would benefit from being
moved? pg_clog and pg_subtrans come to mind; but maybe pg_multixact and
pg_twophase are candidates as well?
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