This has been saved for the 7.5 release:
http:/momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches2
I know initdb might be in C for 7.5, but this behavior has to be ported
to 7.5 too then.
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> >Andrew Dunstan writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >>So if the data directory previously existed and was empty, we don't
> >>clean it out on error, even if we didn't use the noclean flag. Is this
> >>intended behaviour or a bug? (If a bug it's trivially easy to fix.)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >If the data directory already existed, we don't want to delete it. We
> >should possibly delete the content, though.
> >
> >
> >
> yes, that's what I meant.
>
> Here's a patch which should work, I think:
>
> Index: src/bin/initdb/initdb.sh
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/initdb/initdb.sh,v
> retrieving revision 1.203
> diff -c -w -r1.203 initdb.sh
> *** src/bin/initdb/initdb.sh 27 Sep 2003 16:27:57 -0000 1.203
> --- src/bin/initdb/initdb.sh 1 Oct 2003 21:06:07 -0000
> ***************
> *** 44,49 ****
> --- 44,53 ----
> if [ "$made_new_pgdata" = yes ]; then
> echo "$CMDNAME: removing data directory \"$PGDATA\"" 1>&2
> rm -rf "$PGDATA" || echo "$CMDNAME: failed" 1>&2
> + else
> + echo "$CMDNAME: removing contents of data directory
> \"$PGDATA\"" 1>&2
> + rm -rf "$PGDATA"/* || echo "$CMDNAME: failed" 1>&2
> fi
> else
> echo "$CMDNAME: data directory \"$PGDATA\" not removed at
> user's request" 1>&2
>
>
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