Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Andrew Dunstan writes: > > > recreating the datadir if we didn't create it initially should be OK in > > that case, and it makes the code simpler. > > That should be avoided, because you'll have trouble recreating the > original directory with all its properties such as ownership, permissions, > etc., at least not without making the code anything but simpler. There > might even be a situation were you are allowed to delete the directory but > cannot create a new one.
Recreating the directory only happens on WIN32, where rmdir doesn't allow you to only delete files and subdirectories and not the parent directory. Non-Win32 does rm -rf dir/*. Is that OK? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
