Re: [BUGS] initdb: directory not empty issue

2004-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Jeffrey Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem, however, is that this will fail if I am trying to enable a > separate filesystem as the data location. It's rather annoying to have > to remove a lost+found directory (or other files), init the db, and then > remake lost+found (and restor

[BUGS] initdb: directory not empty issue

2004-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Quinn
Hi, Don't know if this is a bug or more of a feature request, but here goes: It would appear that by default initdb refuses to configure a database within a directory that already contains files/directories. I understand that this is desirable in most cases. The problem, however, is that