Andrew Dunstan writes:

> 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.)

If the data directory already existed, we don't want to delete it.  We
should possibly delete the content, though.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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