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Re: BUG #5174: [minor] directories symlinked into base/ are not recursively removed - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #5174: [minor] directories symlinked into base/ are not recursively removed
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Msg-id 20847.1257727297@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BUG #5174: [minor] directories symlinked into base/ are not recursively removed  ("Richard Neill" <rn214@cam.ac.uk>)
Responses Re: BUG #5174: [minor] directories symlinked into base/ are not recursively removed  (Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>)
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"Richard Neill" <rn214@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> If subdirectories of base/ are actually symlinks, then postgresql deletes
> just the symlink, not the directory.

Doing that is completely unsupported, and we cannot be expected to cope
with random manual modifications to the structure of the database.  Why
didn't you use a tablespace like you're supposed to?

            regards, tom lane

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