Re: Fir mkdir command in "Short Version" for installing from source

From: "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel(dot)westermann(at)dbi-services(dot)com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fir mkdir command in "Short Version" for installing from source
Date: 2022-03-14 14:54:25
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>> On 14 Mar 2022, at 15:01, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>>> On 13 Mar 2022, at 17:05, Daniel Westermann (DWE) <daniel(dot)westermann(at)dbi-services(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> Is it worth fixing that with "mkdir -p ..."?
>>
>>> Well, it will fail unless the user already had /usr/local/pgsql/, but I hear
>>> what you're saying.  Though I bet almost anyone following this will be able to
>>> figure it out but there is little to no value in not being correct.
>>
>> I think that at the time that was written, mkdir didn't universally
>> have a "-p" option.  But POSIX has required that for a very long
>> time, so it's probably safe to assume it now.

>Yeah, I wasn't able to find any credibly still useable system man page which
>didn't list -p.  (the fact that IRIX seems to have been one of very few to have
>a long option '--parents' was an interesting archeological tidbit learned.)

>> A larger issue is that blind "mkdir -p" may not produce the ownerships
>> and permissions you want for the parent directories.  That's not a
>> topic to get into in a one-line summary, though.

>Agreed, we're skipping over lots of details in this short version.

>I'll to make the mkdir -p change happen later today unless someone feels
>strongly about leaving it out.

Thank you Daniel and Tom
Regards
Daniel

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