On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 07:21:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > Agreed. The attached patch modifies pg_check_dir() to report about > > invisible and lost+found directory entries, and give more helpful > > messages to the user. > > I'm not terribly thrilled with special-casing 'lost+found' like that, > since it's an extremely filesystem-dependent thing that even today > probably only applies to a minority of our installed platforms. > > The special case for dotfiles might be useful, not because of any > connection to mount points but just because someone might forget > that such could be lurking in a directory that "looks empty".
Yeah, I agree on both points. I am not sure the patch is worth it just the dot output. Want a crazy idea? '.' and '..' have different major device numbers on the top directory of a mount point. We could test for that and prevent/warn about creating data directories on top-level directories of mount points. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers