On 5 February 2013 13:50, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 08:32 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>
>> I would rather add a sentence or two to the
>> initdb documentation recommending that a cluster not be created at
>> a mount point; it should be created in a directory underneath the
>> mount point.
> That makes a great deal of sense, actually. There's no meaningful
> advantage to creating the cluster at the mountpoint root, and even if
> you wanted to you could (on Linux) use bind mounts to make it at the
> root of a mount without being at the root of a filesystem.
How about we allow Sean's patch insomuch as it can detect files
beginning with dots and throw an error message explaining what the
best practice is instead.
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