On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
> Someone on IRC reported that if they had run the pg_upgrade-created > delete_old_cluster.sh shell script it would have deleted their old _and_ > new data directories. (Fortunately they didn't run it.) > > I was confused how this could have happened, and the user explained that > their old cluster was in /u/pgsql/data, and that they wanted to switch to > a per-major-version directory naming schema, so they put the new data > directory in /u/pgsql/data/9.5. (They could have just moved the > directory while the server was down, but didn't.) > > Unfortunately, there is no check for having the new cluster data > directory inside the old data directory, only a check for tablespace > directories in the old cluster. (I never anticipated someone would do > this.) > Interesting - I definitely wouldn't have expected that either. And it definitely seems like a foot-gun we should protect the users against. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
