Re: initdb

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: initdb
Date: 2003-10-01 20:54:32
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0310012250590.2932-100000@peter.localdomain
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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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