Re: Documentation for initdb option --waldir - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Documentation for initdb option --waldir
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In response to Re: Documentation for initdb option --waldir  ("Gurjeet Singh" <gurjeet@singh.im>)
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On Saturday, March 29, 2025, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im> wrote:
On Sat Mar 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM PDT, Laurenz Albe wrote:

> On the other hand, PostgreSQL will protest if the directory isn't
> empty...

Specifically, initdb will complain if the directory it's trying to
initialize is not empty.

For this patch I intend to just point the reader to the “secondary file systems” section mentioned above for more considerations.  We can improve that as desired separately.

David J.

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