On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 1/29/14, 7:37 PM, Haribabu Kommi wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > > On 11/30/13, 6:59 AM, Haribabu kommi wrote: > > > To detect provided data and xlog directories are same or not, I > > reused the > > > Existing make_absolute_path() code as follows. > > > > I note that initdb does not detect whether the data and xlog > directories > > are the same. I think there is no point in addressing this only in > > pg_basebackup. If we want to forbid it, it should be done in initdb > > foremost. > > > > Thanks for pointing it. if the following approach is fine for > > identifying the identical directories > > then I will do the same for initdb also. > > I wouldn't bother. It's a lot of work for little benefit. Any mistake > a user would make can easily be fixed. I also felt a lot of work for little benefit but as of now I am not able to find an easier solution to handle this problem. can we handle the same later if it really requires? -- Regards, Hari Babu Fujitsu Australia Software Technology
