Re: src/ports/pgcheckdir.c - Ignore dot directories...

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 07:21:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Agreed.  The attached patch modifies pg_check_dir() to report about
> > invisible and lost+found directory entries, and give more helpful
> > messages to the user.
> 
> I'm not terribly thrilled with special-casing 'lost+found' like that,
> since it's an extremely filesystem-dependent thing that even today
> probably only applies to a minority of our installed platforms.
> 
> The special case for dotfiles might be useful, not because of any
> connection to mount points but just because someone might forget
> that such could be lurking in a directory that "looks empty".

Yeah, I agree on both points.  I am not sure the patch is worth it just
the dot output.

Want a crazy idea?  '.' and '..' have different major device numbers on
the top directory of a mount point.  We could test for that and
prevent/warn about creating data directories on top-level directories of
mount points.

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