"Richard Neill" <rn214(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
> If subdirectories of base/ are actually symlinks, then postgresql deletes
> just the symlink, not the directory.
Doing that is completely unsupported, and we cannot be expected to cope
with random manual modifications to the structure of the database. Why
didn't you use a tablespace like you're supposed to?
regards, tom lane