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.
"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
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