On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 2:03 AM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 09:31:32PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> * Bruce Momjian (bruce@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>>> 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.
I think this is a great solution. Knowing that neither a human nor a supervisor can mess up the hardlinks is something I really appreciate.
>> 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.
> As ugly as it is, I have never heard of a better solution.
system("rm -rf $OLDPGDATA") ... nah, that is not a better idea.
regards, tom lane
