Re: Initdb failure

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 16:44, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> Rafia Sabih <rafia(dot)pghackers(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 13:50, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >>> Initdb fails when following path is provided as input:
> >>> datasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafdds/datasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafdds/datasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafdds/datasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafdds/datasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafdds/datasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafddsdatasadfasfdsafdds/
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> > Now that you say this, it does make sense to atleast inform about the
> > correct error and that too earlier. Something like the attached patch
> > would make sense.
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> I am not terribly excited about putting effort into this at all, because
> I don't think that any actual user anywhere will ever get any benefit.
> The proposed test case is just silly.

That I totally agree upon!
But on the other hand emitting the right error message atleast would
be good for the sake of correctness if nothing else. But yes that
definitely should be weighed against what is the effort required for
this.

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Regards,
Rafia Sabih