Forgive the top-reply.
After reading the discussion, I'm in favor of the "philosophically
correct" approach rather than the usually-technically-correct approach.
That is, display the warning, but let the sysadmin/dba do what they
need/want to do and trust that, most of the time, they know what they're
doing.
As the most interesting man might say, I don't always have PGDATA as a
mount point for another filesystem, but when I do...
On 2/6/2013 15:29, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> I had a chat with a couple of the folks on IRC (#PostgreSQL/FreeNode)
> to get their feedback, and seanc passed it on to the upstream mailing
> lists with a slightly more refined version of the patch ignoring all
> dot dirs. The thread is here for reference:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/A37DC83F-75AA-4850-8261-AD16B104F044@chittenden.org
>