Robert,
> The Apache model is definitely the first of these, AFAICS. The
> proposals on this thread mostly seem to be an amalgam of both, which
> doesn't strike me as a terribly good idea, but evidently I'm in the
> minority.
Well, an individual DBA would not want to do it both ways. But we
should *allow* both ways rather than trying to mandate how the files get
created or what their names are.
--Josh Berkus