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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: squid ward <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: directory name equal database name
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:20:15 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
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=?UTF-8?B?c3F1aWQgd2FyZA==?= <[email protected]> writes:
> Question is why directory name not equal as database name?

Because (1) it doesn't work for database names that aren't legal as
filenames (according to the none-too-well-standardized rules of your
particular filesystem); (2) SQL requires us to treat "FOO" and "foo"
as distinct names, but the filesystem might not; (3) renaming a database
is dangerous, as there's no way to make the directory rename action
atomic with commit of the system catalog updates; (4) renaming a database
causes problems for concurrent sessions that might be in the middle of
opening files in that database.  And probably a few other reasons I
don't recall off the top of my head.

> Can i change it?

No.

			regards, tom lane

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