Re: Tablespaces in the data directory

On Tue, Dec  4, 2012 at 09:37:46AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > FYI, someone put their new cluster inside an existing old tablespace,
> > and when they ran the script to delete their old install, their new
> > install was deleted too.  My answer was, "Don't do that".
> 
> Uh, wow.  I feel bad for that person, but it does seem like a bit of a
> self-inflicted injury.

They wanted pg_upgrade to guard against it, and I said that was
possible, but it would require pg_upgrade to know which files to remove,
and that would make pg_upgrade more fragile.

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