| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com>, Andrew Sullivan <sullivana(at)bpl(dot)on(dot)ca>, Len Morgan <len-morgan(at)crcom(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: initdb and "exit_nicely"... |
| Date: | 2000-05-25 23:56:37 |
| Message-ID: | 862.959298997@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> How do you find out if a directory is empty?
Good question.
> The best way I could think of is this:
> test x"`ls -A "$PGDATA"`" = x
The embedded quotes might confuse some shells, no? Perhaps better
CONTENTS=`ls -A "$PGDATA"`
if test "x$CONTENTS" = x
> Are we talking 7.0.1 material, btw?
Well, we would be if we were sure of the patch. I'm a little worried
about portability though. Given that this isn't a very critical issue
(IMHO) I'd recommend saving it for the 7.1 cycle.
regards, tom lane
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