Re: rm -rf in initlocation violates Rule of Least Surprise

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: "Clifford T(dot) Matthews" <ctm(at)ardi(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: rm -rf in initlocation violates Rule of Least Surprise
Date: 2003-11-04 07:45:15
Message-ID: 1067931915.13534.65.camel@tokyo
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On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 22:59, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
> Using initlocation from postgresql 7.3.4 I managed to blow away some
> important data tonight due to "exit_nicely"'s "rm -rf".

Has there been any followup on this? IMHO this is a bug we should fix.

-Neil

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