| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Tablespaces in the data directory |
| Date: | 2012-12-04 14:54:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20121204145443.GF30893@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 09:37:46AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > FYI, someone put their new cluster inside an existing old tablespace,
> > and when they ran the script to delete their old install, their new
> > install was deleted too. My answer was, "Don't do that".
>
> Uh, wow. I feel bad for that person, but it does seem like a bit of a
> self-inflicted injury.
They wanted pg_upgrade to guard against it, and I said that was
possible, but it would require pg_upgrade to know which files to remove,
and that would make pg_upgrade more fragile.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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