At 2015-05-26 19:07:20 +0200, andres@anarazel.de wrote:
>
> Abhijit, do you recall why the code was changed to follow all symlinks
> in contrast to explicitly going through the tablespaces as initdb -S
> does? I'm pretty sure early versions of the patch pretty much had a
> verbatim copy of the initdb logic?
Yes, earlier versions of the patch did follow symlinks only in
pg_tblspc. I changed this because Álvaro pointed out that this
was likely to miss important stuff, e.g. in
20150403163232.GA28444@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org,
20150406131636.GD4369@alvh.no-ip.org
-- Abhijit
