Update our documentation concerning where to create data directories. Although initdb has long discouraged use of a filesystem mount-point directory as a PG data directory, this point was covered nowhere in the user-facing documentation. Also, with the popularity of pg_upgrade, we really need to recommend that the PG user own not only the data directory but its parent directory too. (Without a writable parent directory, operations such as "mv data data.old" fail immediately. pg_upgrade itself doesn't do that, but wrapper scripts for it often do.)
Hence, adjust the "Creating a Database Cluster" section to address these points. I also took the liberty of wordsmithing the discussion of NFS a bit. These considerations aren't by any means new, so back-patch to all supported branches. Branch ------ master Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8c72a7fab47a7f501d211468d6e477e1f3a20599 Modified Files -------------- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
