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From Neil Conway
Subject Re: rm -rf in initlocation violates Rule of Least Surprise
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Msg-id 1067931915.13534.65.camel@tokyo
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In response to rm -rf in initlocation violates Rule of Least Surprise  ("Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com>)
Responses Re: rm -rf in initlocation violates Rule of Least Surprise  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 22:59, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
> Using initlocation from postgresql 7.3.4 I managed to blow away some
> important data tonight due to "exit_nicely"'s "rm -rf".

Has there been any followup on this? IMHO this is a bug we should fix.

-Neil

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