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...@wrigleys.postgresql.org
> 
> and my reply that we don't want to fix this:
> 
>       http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20121004191201.ga11...@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.

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  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com

  + It's impossible for everything to be true. +


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