Re: initdb should create a warning message [was Re:

Greg Stark writes:
> Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> > Then it needs to be stated very prominently.  But the place to put a
> > sign saying "Dangerous cliff edge" is beside the path that leads along
> > it.Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, p
>
> The only way to make this prominent would be a file with the *name* "THIS
> DIRECTORY CONTAINS CRITICAL DATA". Not a "README" with that message inside.

That's exacly what I did, after some "root" came along and moved my pgdata
away while postmaster was running. The data was not that important in that
case, but nevertheless I put a file with a name like

NEVER_MOVE_THIS_DIRECTORY_WHILE_POSTMASTER_PROCESS_IS_RUNNING.txt

in pgdata and wrote a few lines in that file, how to shutdown postmaster
properly.

But renaming pgdata to something like that would be even better and could be
done alrealy (if I'm right).

Regards,Tilo