Greetings, * Bruce Momjian (bruce@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:25:24PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Ah, right, I forgot that it did that, fair enough. > > > > I've never been thrilled with that particular approach due to the > > inherent risks of people messing directly with files like pg_control, > > but that's how it is for now. > > There was too much concern that users would accidentally start the old > server at some later point, and its files would be hard linked to the > new live server, leading to disaster. Sure, I understand that concern, just wish there was a better approach we could use for "DO NOT START THIS SERVER" rather than moving of the pg_control file. Thanks! Stephen
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