Re: production server down

Joe Conway wrote:

>>
>>
>> So one thing I'd strongly suggest is stopping Postgres and dismounting
>> the NFS server to see what's under there.  If there is a valid-looking
>> PGDATA directory under there, you definitely want to get rid of it to
>> reduce the risk of this happening again.
>>
>
> Perhaps we should purposefully place a root owned placeholder file 
> there -- that way Postgres would refuse to start at all in this scenario.
>
> BTW, the init script is indeed the one which automatically does initdb:
>
>

ISTM that this should ideally be a sysconfig setting that is picked up 
by the init script.

In the absence of that, in your case, certainly the root-owned 
placeholder is a good idea - it seems nicer than disabling on-boot 
startup altogether if you can avoid that.

cheers

andrew