From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: jonas@morfosia.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Minor improvement for creating directory structure
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 18:02:31 -0400
Message-ID: <20190509220231.eikabjuedum26cbu@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190509215912.GA24114@alvherre.pgsql>
References: <20190509212132.u4znpcgomcb7bvpp@momjian.us>
<20190509215912.GA24114@alvherre.pgsql>
On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 05:59:12PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.
I guess you would want to know right away.
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