Re: New option for pg_basebackup, to specify a different directory for pg_xlog

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Haribabu Kommi
<kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>
>> On 11/30/13, 6:59 AM, Haribabu kommi wrote:
>> > To detect provided data and xlog directories are same or not, I reused
>> > the
>> > Existing make_absolute_path() code as follows.
>>
>> I note that initdb does not detect whether the data and xlog directories
>> are the same. I think there is no point in addressing this only in
>> pg_basebackup. If we want to forbid it, it should be done in initdb
>> foremost.
>
>
> Thanks for pointing it. if the following approach is fine for identifying
> the identical directories
> then I will do the same for initdb also.

I'm feeling the similar way as Peter. And, ISTM that we need much changes of
source though its benefit is small....

Regards,

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Fujii Masao