The following code is in initdb.sh:

exit_nicely(){
    stty echo > /dev/null 2>&1
    echo 1>&2
    echo "$CMDNAME: failed" 1>&2
    if [ "$noclean" != yes ]; then
        if [ "$made_new_pgdata" = yes ]; then
            echo "$CMDNAME: removing data directory \"$PGDATA\"" 1>&2
            rm -rf "$PGDATA" || echo "$CMDNAME: failed" 1>&2
        fi
    else
        echo "$CMDNAME: data directory \"$PGDATA\" not removed at user's 
request" 1>&2
    fi
    exit 1
}

So if the data directory previously existed and was empty, we don't 
clean it out on error, even if we didn't use the noclean flag. Is this 
intended behaviour or a bug? (If a bug it's trivially easy to fix.)

cheers

andrew

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