On 2022-Mar-14, Robert Haas wrote: > 2. Why not instead change the code so that the operation can succeed, > by creating the prerequisite parent directories? Do we not have enough > information for that? I'm not saying that we definitely should do it > that way rather than this way, but I think we do take that approach in > some cases.
It seems we can choose freely between these two implementations -- I mean I don't see any upsides or downsides to either one. The current one has the advantage that it never makes the datadir "dirty", to use Kyotaro's term. It verifies that the creation/drop form a pair. A possible downside is that if there's a bug, we could end up with a spurious PANIC at the end of recovery, and no way to recover. -- Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
