Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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/*. > > I think we should forget about invoking rm as a subprocess at all, and > just do the recursive directory walk and unlinks for ourselves. We > already have code to do this for copy in copydir.c, and unlink would not > be any longer. We will probably be forced into implementing database > removal for ourselves rather than by 'rm' hacks anyway as soon as > tablespaces come to pass; so why contort initdb's behavior for a very > transient implementation savings?
If we want to do that, fine, but I don't want to force the change just for Win32. -- 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 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
