Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 17:21:32 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: jonas@morfosia.com, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Minor improvement for creating directory structure
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On Wed, May  8, 2019 at 07:40:16AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/install-short.html
> Description:
> 
> 1)
> $ mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/pgsql/data’: No such file or
> directory

My docs say:

       -p, --parents
              no error if existing, make parent directories as needed

While I can see the value of "make parent directories as needed", having
it do "no error if existing" could be bad.

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