Re: initdb when data/ folder has mount points

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Apparently, initdb assumes that data/ is one big mount point. However, we
> have four mount points:
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/backup
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/base
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/pg_log
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/pg_xlog

Ron,

What command do you use? Here, on Slackware-14.2, /var/lib/psql/10.2/data/
contains:

PG_VERSION pg_ident.conf pg_snapshots pg_wal
base pg_logical pg_stat pg_xact
global pg_multixact pg_stat_tmp postgresql.auto.conf
pg_commit_ts pg_notify pg_subtrans postgresql.conf
pg_dynshmem pg_replslot pg_tblspc postmaster.opts
pg_hba.conf pg_serial pg_twophase postmaster.pid

The 9.6 version was the same.

The command I use (as user postgres) is:
initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/10.2/data &

HTH,

Rich