Re: src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories...
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Msg-id 51110E34.4030302@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories...  (Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>)
Responses Re: src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories...  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On 02/05/2013 08:32 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:

> I would rather add a sentence or two to the
> initdb documentation recommending that a cluster not be created at
> a mount point; it should be created in a directory underneath the
> mount point.
That makes a great deal of sense, actually. There's no meaningful
advantage to creating the cluster at the mountpoint root, and even if
you wanted to you could (on Linux) use bind mounts to make it at the
root of a mount without being at the root of a filesystem.

-- Craig Ringer                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services




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