| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories... |
| Date: | 2013-02-05 14:14:30 |
| Message-ID: | CA+U5nMJ3JQZA5krkLjLu6aDMZPP+09on2mBTu3_pNU3ORagxpg@mail.gmail.com |
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On 5 February 2013 13:50, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 08:32 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>
>> I would rather add a sentence or two to the
>> initdb documentation recommending that a cluster not be created at
>> a mount point; it should be created in a directory underneath the
>> mount point.
> That makes a great deal of sense, actually. There's no meaningful
> advantage to creating the cluster at the mountpoint root, and even if
> you wanted to you could (on Linux) use bind mounts to make it at the
> root of a mount without being at the root of a filesystem.
How about we allow Sean's patch insomuch as it can detect files
beginning with dots and throw an error message explaining what the
best practice is instead.
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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