From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: jonas@morfosia.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Minor improvement for creating directory structure
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 17:59:12 -0400
Message-ID: <20190509215912.GA24114@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190509212132.u4znpcgomcb7bvpp@momjian.us>
On 2019-May-09, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.
Why? initdb is going to fail anyway if it contains anything.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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