Tom Lane wrote: > 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.
That is something I will address during beta as I get problem reports. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
