Re: [BUGS] BUG #5174: [minor] directories symlinked into base/ are not recursively removed

2009-11-08 Thread Richard Neill
Tom Lane wrote: "Richard Neill" writes: If subdirectories of base/ are actually symlinks, then postgresql deletes just the symlink, not the directory. Doing that is completely unsupported, and we cannot be expected to cope with random manual modifications to the structure of the database.

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5174: [minor] directories symlinked into base/ are not recursively removed

2009-11-08 Thread Tom Lane
"Richard Neill" writes: > If subdirectories of base/ are actually symlinks, then postgresql deletes > just the symlink, not the directory. Doing that is completely unsupported, and we cannot be expected to cope with random manual modifications to the structure of the database. Why didn't you use

[BUGS] BUG #5174: [minor] directories symlinked into base/ are not recursively removed

2009-11-08 Thread Richard Neill
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5174 Logged by: Richard Neill Email address: rn...@cam.ac.uk PostgreSQL version: 8.4.1 Operating system: Linux Description:[minor] directories symlinked into base/ are not recursively removed Details: This is