| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Use of non-restart-safe storage by temp_tablespaces |
| Date: | 2017-05-30 14:41:53 |
| Message-ID: | 20170530144153.GB2648@momjian.us |
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On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 03:55:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm too lazy to search the archives right now, but there was some case
> years ago where somebody destroyed their database via an ill-thought-out
> combination of automatic-initdb-if-$PGDATA-isn't-there and slow mounting.
> We'd have to be very sure that any auto-directory-creation behavior didn't
> have a potential for that. Perhaps doing it only for temp tablespaces
> alleviates some of the risk, but it still seems pretty scary.
Here is the Joe Conway report from 2004:
https://postgr.es/m/41BFAB7C.5040108@joeconway.com
and later references to the report from Joe Conway (2005):
https://postgr.es/m/425ABB17.305%40joeconway.com
and you (2007):
https://postgr.es/m/18897.1197775682%40sss.pgh.pa.us
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