James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
> I notice that everyone suggests using a symlink, but I never see
> anyone suggest just mounting a filesystem there.
I think initdb wants an empty directory. Once it creates the
directory structure with pg_xlog, if that's a mount point, it's a
bit awkward to mount there and then copy from behind the mount point
onto it. A symbolic link seems both safer and easier.
-Kevin