Re: Shouldn't we document "don't use a mountpoint as $PGDATA"? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Shouldn't we document "don't use a mountpoint as $PGDATA"?
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Msg-id 55B7C6EC.1000303@agliodbs.com
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In response to Shouldn't we document "don't use a mountpoint as $PGDATA"?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 07/28/2015 11:01 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I had a discussion with some folks at Red Hat about this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247477
> 
> I had the idea that we had documented somewhere that the data directory
> should not be a filesystem mount point, but I sure can't find it now.
> Any objections to adding some text about this to section 17.2, near the
> caveats about NFS?

Nope.  This is one of those things which seems obvious, but isn't to
newcomers who aren't former sysadmins.

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Josh Berkus
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