Re: Shouldn't we document "don't use a mountpoint as $PGDATA"?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Shouldn't we document "don't use a mountpoint as $PGDATA"?
Date: 2015-07-28 18:19:00
Message-ID: 55B7C794.2020106@dunslane.net
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On 07/28/2015 02:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I had a discussion with some folks at Red Hat about this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247477
>
> I had the idea that we had documented somewhere that the data directory
> should not be a filesystem mount point, but I sure can't find it now.
> Any objections to adding some text about this to section 17.2, near the
> caveats about NFS?

Please do. I came across a client who should have known better doing
this just a week or two ago.

cheers

andrew

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