On 2015-05-25 13:38:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On May 24, 2015 7:52:53 AM PDT, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > If we'd merge it with initdb's list I think I'd not be that bad. I'm thinking of some header declaring it, roughly like the rmgr list.
>
> pg_log/ is a counterexample to that idea too; initdb doesn't know about it
> (and shouldn't).
The idea would be to *only* directories that initdb knows about. Since
that's where the valuables are. So I don't see how pg_log would be a
counterexample.