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.
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