Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke
Date: 2002-08-19 16:24:21
Message-ID: 3D611BB5.76B03EDE@fourpalms.org
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> OK, with two people now asking to have the patch removed, and with no
> comment from Thomas, I have removed the patch. This removes XLogDir
> environment variable, and -X postmaster/postgres/initdb/pg_ctl flag.
> I have also removed the code that dynamically sized xlogdir.

... Back in town...

Sorry to hear that this is the way it turned out. It is a bad precedent
imho, and I see no way forward on my interest in this area. Hopefully
someone else will pick it up; perhaps one of those so vehemently against
the details of this?

- Thomas

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