Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> writes:
> On 13 Mar 2022, at 17:05, Daniel Westermann (DWE)
> <daniel.westerm...@dbi-services.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.
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.
regards, tom lane
