Folks,
While initdb allows you to choose a directory for transaction logs, it
can't already exist, so it can't be in its usual place under $PGDATA.
I'd like to propose that this be allowed by having an alternate syntax
for the -X option, namely, "existing."
When -X is set to "existing", it would check whether pg_xlog is a
directory and the only thing in $PGDATA. One way to do that is to add
a new return code to check_data_dir() and a new branch of the case
statement after it's called.
What say?
Cheers,
David.
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