Re: New option for pg_basebackup, to specify a different directory for pg_xlog

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On 11/30/13, 6:59 AM, Haribabu kommi wrote:
> > To detect provided data and xlog directories are same or not, I reused
> the
> > Existing make_absolute_path() code as follows.
>
> I note that initdb does not detect whether the data and xlog directories
> are the same. I think there is no point in addressing this only in
> pg_basebackup. If we want to forbid it, it should be done in initdb
> foremost.
>

Thanks for pointing it. if the following approach is fine for identifying
the identical directories
then I will do the same for initdb also.

> I'm not sure it's worth the trouble, but if I were to do it, I'd just
> stat() the two directories and compare their inodes. That seems much
> easier and more robust than comparing path strings

stat() is having problems in windows, because of that reason the patch is
written to identify the directories with string comparison.

Regards,
Hari Babu