Re: [GENERAL] initdb and "exit_nicely"...

[Peter Eisentraut]

Tom Lane writes:

> The idea I suggested a couple of days ago was that initdb should refuse
> to run if PGDATA exists and is nonempty.  Sound reasonable?

Okay, let's do that. How do you find out if a directory is empty? The best
way I could think of is this:

test x"`ls -A "$PGDATA"`" = x

Are we talking 7.0.1 material, btw?

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