On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:29:52AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> You might remember this pg_upgrade bug report where the user complained
> that user-defined tablespaces _inside_ the old cluster directory were
> deleted by the old cluster delete script:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1THPDm-00018c-KT@wrigleys.postgresql.org
>
> and my reply that we don't want to fix this:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20121004191201.GA11759@momjian.us
>
> However, creating a script that deletes data is never a good idea so I
> have created the attached patch to avoid creating the script in these
> cases, and issue a message to the user.
>
> The test isn't perfect but it is probably close enough. I don't think
> it is worth unlinking a possibly matching filename in such cases.
OK, I have applied a modified version of this patch the uses the
port/path.c functions to do proper path comparison, and decided to
conditionally unlink the script file just in case.
-- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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