Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do you find out if a directory is empty?
Good question.
> The best way I could think of is this:
> test x"`ls -A "$PGDATA"`" = x
The embedded quotes might confuse some shells, no? Perhaps better
CONTENTS=`ls -A "$PGDATA"`
if test "x$CONTENTS" = x
> Are we talking 7.0.1 material, btw?
Well, we would be if we were sure of the patch. I'm a little worried
about portability though. Given that this isn't a very critical issue
(IMHO) I'd recommend saving it for the 7.1 cycle.
regards, tom lane
