Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> (Come to think of it, --link can fail on Unix too, if the user tries to >> put the new database on a different filesystem. Have you got guards in >> there to make sure this is discovered before the point of no return?)
> Of course: > ... > though you have to delete the new cluster directory and remove the _old > suffixes to get your old cluster back. That wasn't what I had in mind by "before the point of no return". You should be making some effort to detect obvious failure cases *before* the user has to do a lot of error-prone manual cleanup. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers