Sean Chittenden <s...@chittenden.org> wrote: > Currently src/port/pgcheckdir.c will reject non-empty > directories, which is an issue during initdb(1) when PGDATA is > also the mount point for filesystems that support snapshots (e.g. > ZFS or UFS2).
> Granted it's not hard to create a subdirectory, initdb there and > move the contents of the files around, it's extra work that > shouldn't be required. I feel that it is very bad practice to use the mount point as the PGDATA directory. It forcloses a lot of reasonable actions that someone managing the database server might want to take. It's hard to get enthusiastic about a patch to make bad practice more convenient. I would rather add a sentence or two to the initdb documentation recommending that a cluster not be created at a mount point; it should be created in a directory underneath the mount point. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
