| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | jonas(at)morfosia(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Minor improvement for creating directory structure |
| Date: | 2019-05-09 21:59:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20190509215912.GA24114@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2019-May-09, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 07:40:16AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> >
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/install-short.html
> > Description:
> >
> > 1)
> > $ mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
> > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/pgsql/data’: No such file or
> > directory
>
> My docs say:
>
> -p, --parents
> no error if existing, make parent directories as needed
>
> While I can see the value of "make parent directories as needed", having
> it do "no error if existing" could be bad.
Why? initdb is going to fail anyway if it contains anything.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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