From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories... |
Date: | 2013-02-05 13:46:24 |
Message-ID: | 51110D30.7000900@dunslane.net |
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On 02/05/2013 07:32 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> Currently src/port/pgcheckdir.c will reject non-empty
>> directories, which is an issue during initdb(1) when PGDATA is
>> also the mount point for filesystems that support snapshots (e.g.
>> ZFS or UFS2).
>> Granted it's not hard to create a subdirectory, initdb there and
>> move the contents of the files around, it's extra work that
>> shouldn't be required.
> I feel that it is very bad practice to use the mount point as the
> PGDATA directory. It forcloses a lot of reasonable actions that
> someone managing the database server might want to take.
>
> It's hard to get enthusiastic about a patch to make bad practice
> more convenient. I would rather add a sentence or two to the
> initdb documentation recommending that a cluster not be created at
> a mount point; it should be created in a directory underneath the
> mount point.
>
I tend to agree.
cheers
andrew
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