> A slightly more reasonable example is where the admin has already
> inserted his own pg_hba.conf in the directory; would be nice if initdb
> didn't overwrite it (nor delete it on failure), but I'm not sure it's
> worth the trouble.
I am inclined to leave it as is too. I can imagine many bug reports if
that directory is not flushed on failure.
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