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commit    1943c000b7a22d3ca334196cfe3f7b8159b210c2
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Fri May 29 21:02:58 2015 +0000
First released in: 9.5.0, 9.3.8, 9.4.3

    initdb -S should now have an explicit check that $PGDATA is valid.
    
    The fsync code from the backend essentially assumes that somebody's already
    validated PGDATA, at least to the extent of it being a readable directory.
    That's safe enough for initdb's normal code path too, but "initdb -S"
    doesn't have any other processing at all that touches the target directory.
    To have reasonable error-case behavior, add a pg_check_dir call.
    Per gripe from Peter E.


 src/bin/initdb/initdb.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
index 6a73e9688bc..feeff9e864f 100644
--- a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
+++ b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
@@ -3564,10 +3564,19 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
-	/* If we only need to fsync, just to it and exit */
+	/* If we only need to fsync, just do it and exit */
 	if (sync_only)
 	{
 		setup_pgdata();
+
+		/* must check that directory is readable */
+		if (pg_check_dir(pg_data) <= 0)
+		{
+			fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not access directory \"%s\": %s\n"),
+					progname, pg_data, strerror(errno));
+			exit_nicely();
+		}
+
 		fsync_pgdata();
 		return 0;
 	}


[parent: 57e1138bcc62]