From: | Richard Neill <rn214(at)hermes(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Richard Neill <rn214(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: BUG #5174: [minor] directories symlinked into base/ are not recursively removed |
Date: | 2009-11-09 01:04:08 |
Message-ID: | 4AF76A88.9060906@hermes.cam.ac.uk |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "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.
That's a fair point, although as I understand it, it's reasonable to
move, say, pg_xlog in that manner.
Why
> didn't you use a tablespace like you're supposed to?
Because it wasn't supposed to be anything other than a temporary
workaround, and because I had only 5 minutes of downtime in which to
find more diskspace!
Anyway, I guess that's another "bug" report of mine that turns out to be
useless :-)
Best wishes,
Richard
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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