> On 14 Mar 2022, at 15:01, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > 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.
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. -- Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/
