Re: New option for pg_basebackup, to specify a different directory for pg_xlog

On 1/29/14, 7:37 PM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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>     On 11/30/13, 6:59 AM, Haribabu kommi wrote:
>     > To detect provided data and xlog directories are same or not, I
>     reused the
>     > Existing make_absolute_path() code as follows.
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>     I note that initdb does not detect whether the data and xlog directories
>     are the same.  I think there is no point in addressing this only in
>     pg_basebackup.  If we want to forbid it, it should be done in initdb
>     foremost.
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>  Thanks for pointing it. if the following approach is fine for
> identifying the identical directories
>  then I will do the same for initdb also.

I wouldn't bother.  It's a lot of work for little benefit.  Any mistake
a user would make can easily be fixed.