On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eu...@timbira.com> wrote: > On 22-09-2011 15:15, Josh Kupershmidt wrote: >> 1.) IMO it's more logical to put the test for whether the $ARCHIVE >> directory exists before the test whether ${ARCHIVE}/${FILE} exists. > > No. If you do so, it will end up wasting a lot of cpu cycles testing > something that is *always* true (if the directory exists). AFAICS this test > is to handle a cp failure case nicely.
Maybe I misunderstand you.. I was talking about this test, which was in Greg's script already: if [ ! -d ${ARCHIVE} ] ; then echo Archive directory does not exist >&2 exit 1 fi I don't see how it would make any difference performance-wise whether this block is moved up to right before the "if [ -f ${ARCHIVE}/${FILE} ] ; then" line: we expect both of these if-statements to evaluate false if they are reached. Josh -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs