Re: initdb in C

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan writes:
>
> > recreating the datadir if we didn't create it initially should be OK in
> > that case, and it makes the code simpler.
>
> That should be avoided, because you'll have trouble recreating the
> original directory with all its properties such as ownership, permissions,
> etc., at least not without making the code anything but simpler. There
> might even be a situation were you are allowed to delete the directory but
> cannot create a new one.

Recreating the directory only happens on WIN32, where rmdir doesn't
allow you to only delete files and subdirectories and not the parent
directory. Non-Win32 does rm -rf dir/*.

Is that OK?

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