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

On 2/5/13 7:32 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> wrote:
> 
>> > Currently src/port/pgcheckdir.c will reject non-empty
>> > directories, which is an issue during initdb(1) when PGDATA is
>> > also the mount point for filesystems that support snapshots (e.g.
>> > ZFS or UFS2).
>> > Granted it's not hard to create a subdirectory, initdb there and
>> > move the contents of the files around, it's extra work that
>> > shouldn't be required.
> I feel that it is very bad practice to use the mount point as the
> PGDATA directory.  It forcloses a lot of reasonable actions that
> someone managing the database server might want to take. 

Yes, a variant of this particular patch gets rejected about once every
18 months.