Re: initdb when data/ folder has mount points

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Apparently, initdb assumes that data/ is one big mount point. However, we
> have four mount points:
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/backup
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/base
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/pg_log
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/pg_xlog

Ron,

   What command do you use? Here, on Slackware-14.2, /var/lib/psql/10.2/data/
contains:

PG_VERSION    pg_ident.conf  pg_snapshots  pg_wal
base	      pg_logical     pg_stat	   pg_xact
global	      pg_multixact   pg_stat_tmp   postgresql.auto.conf
pg_commit_ts  pg_notify      pg_subtrans   postgresql.conf
pg_dynshmem   pg_replslot    pg_tblspc	   postmaster.opts
pg_hba.conf   pg_serial      pg_twophase   postmaster.pid

   The 9.6 version was the same.

   The command I use (as user postgres) is: 
initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/10.2/data &

HTH,

Rich