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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: rm -rf in initlocation violates Rule of Least Surprise
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Msg-id 22120.1067959975@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: rm -rf in initlocation violates Rule of Least Surprise  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> 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.

I'm disinclined to expend any effort at all on initlocation, since it's
going to disappear when we have tablespaces ... which I would like to
believe will happen for 7.5.

            regards, tom lane

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