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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: "Clifford T(dot) Matthews" <ctm(at)ardi(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: rm -rf in initlocation violates Rule of Least Surprise
Date: 2003-11-04 15:32:55
Message-ID: 22120.1067959975@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> 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.

I'm disinclined to expend any effort at all on initlocation, since it's
going to disappear when we have tablespaces ... which I would like to
believe will happen for 7.5.

regards, tom lane

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