From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Win32 link() function |
Date: | 2009-06-01 04:09:42 |
Message-ID: | 200906010409.n5149gZ23701@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> (Come to think of it, --link can fail on Unix too, if the user tries to
> >> put the new database on a different filesystem. Have you got guards in
> >> there to make sure this is discovered before the point of no return?)
>
> > Of course:
> > ...
> > though you have to delete the new cluster directory and remove the _old
> > suffixes to get your old cluster back.
>
> That wasn't what I had in mind by "before the point of no return".
> You should be making some effort to detect obvious failure cases
> *before* the user has to do a lot of error-prone manual cleanup.
That is something I will address during beta as I get problem reports.
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