On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> [Symlinks] don't scale,

Given that we have only one directory for the log file, this would not
appear to be a problem.

> they are not portable,

That's certainly a problem if we intend to run on systems without them.

> and it is difficult for
> applications (like the Postgres backend) to know that they are dealing
> with a simlink or a real file.

Er...that's the whole point of symlinks.

Not that I really care either way about the whole issue, so long
as we do *something*.

cjs
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