On 2/5/13 7:32 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Sean Chittenden <s...@chittenden.org> wrote: > >> > Currently src/port/pgcheckdir.c will reject non-empty >> > directories, which is an issue during initdb(1) when PGDATA is >> > also the mount point for filesystems that support snapshots (e.g. >> > ZFS or UFS2). >> > Granted it's not hard to create a subdirectory, initdb there and >> > move the contents of the files around, it's extra work that >> > shouldn't be required. > I feel that it is very bad practice to use the mount point as the > PGDATA directory. It forcloses a lot of reasonable actions that > someone managing the database server might want to take.
Yes, a variant of this particular patch gets rejected about once every 18 months. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
