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From: Tilo Schwarz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: initdb should create a warning message [was Re:
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:56:46 +0100
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Greg Stark writes:
> Oliver Elphick <[email protected]> writes:
> > Then it needs to be stated very prominently.  But the place to put a
> > sign saying "Dangerous cliff edge" is beside the path that leads along
> > it.Greg Stark <[email protected]>, p
>
> The only way to make this prominent would be a file with the *name* "THIS
> DIRECTORY CONTAINS CRITICAL DATA". Not a "README" with that message inside.

That's exacly what I did, after some "root" came along and moved my pgdata 
away while postmaster was running. The data was not that important in that 
case, but nevertheless I put a file with a name like

NEVER_MOVE_THIS_DIRECTORY_WHILE_POSTMASTER_PROCESS_IS_RUNNING.txt

in pgdata and wrote a few lines in that file, how to shutdown postmaster 
properly.

But renaming pgdata to something like that would be even better and could be 
done alrealy (if I'm right).

Regards,
	
	Tilo

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