"Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This has been suggested before but I'm unconvinced that it's a good >> idea. It's reasonably common for pg_xlog to be a symlink. If you >> neglect to re-establish the symlink then what would happen is that xlog >> gets recreated on the data disk, and with no notice you are running in >> a degraded mode.
> Agreed on the basis that people sometimes forget to symlink. That's > the reason why I was echoing a message. Initially the message was > WARNING, but I degraded it to LOG. Applied with minor stylistic tweaks and documentation update. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers