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

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Part of the reason we can't "just continue to use the symlink method" is
> that the PGXLOG environment variable situation is currently in CVS
> beyond initdb and in postmaster, postgres, and pg_ctl, so we do have to
> do something before 7.3 or we will have new environment variable
> handling in all those commands, and I don't think we have agreement on
> that.

Well, let's take it out, then, and use the symlink instead. It may
be in CVS now, but it's never been in a release, so there should
be no problem with removing it.

I think we've got some pretty strong opinions here that distributing
configuration information amongst multiple environment variables
is a Bad Idea.

cjs
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