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-rw-r--r--NEWS5
-rw-r--r--README10
-rw-r--r--configure.ac3
-rw-r--r--postgresql-setup.in10
4 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 989a308..e4424b1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,9 +4,14 @@ Bugfixes in 3.4 version
* Fix upgrade for non-standard unit names with --unit option.
+New in 3.4 version
+
* Add --upgrade-from-unit option which allows proper selection of
predecessor service name (when the default detection does not help).
+* postgresql-setup now throws warning if the PGDATA directory (or its
+ parent directory) is a mountpoint.
+
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bugfixes in 3.3 version
diff --git a/README b/README
index ff72179..abb754b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,7 +3,13 @@ postgresql-setup
----------------
BuildRequires:
- - m4, docbook-utils, help2man, elinks (pretty README.rpm-dist)
+ - m4
+ - docbook-utils
+ - help2man
+ - elinks (pretty README.rpm-dist)
-Maintainer's BuildRequires
+Suggested BuildRequires:
+ - util-linux (mountpoint utility)
+
+Maintainer's BuildRequires:
- autoconf, automake, autoconf-archive
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 133065a..5d8a4a4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ sed_subst_var_pattern(docdir)
sed_subst_var_pattern(includedir)
sed_subst_var_pattern(libdir)
sed_subst_var_pattern(libexecdir)
+sed_subst_var_pattern(MOUNTPOINT)
sed_subst_var_pattern(top_srcdir)
sed_subst_var_pattern(PGDATADIR)
sed_subst_var_pattern(PGMAJORVERSION)
@@ -111,6 +112,8 @@ test -z "$ac_cv_path_SU" &&
SU_POSTGRES="$SU -s /bin/sh -l postgres"
AC_SUBST([SU_POSTGRES])
+AC_PATH_PROG([MOUNTPOINT], [mountpoint], [false])
+
PGSETUP_PACKAGING_INIT
# check for main PostgreSQL binaries
diff --git a/postgresql-setup.in b/postgresql-setup.in
index 7d5a0eb..20d5ad6 100644
--- a/postgresql-setup.in
+++ b/postgresql-setup.in
@@ -793,6 +793,16 @@ debug "final pgport: $pgport"
script_result=0
+if @MOUNTPOINT@ -q "$pgdata" || @MOUNTPOINT@ -q "$(dirname "$pgdata")"; then
+ warn $"Note that either your data directory '$pgdata' or"
+ warn_q $"the parent directory '$(dirname "$pgdata")'"
+ warn_q $"is a direct mountpoint. This is usually bad idea and your"
+ warn_q $"filesystem layout should ideally look like:"
+ warn_q $"/ROOT_OWNED_MOUNTPOINT/POSTGRES_OWNED_DIRECTORY/DATADIR."
+ warn_q $"See the upstream documentation for more info:"
+ warn_q $"http://www.postgresql.org/docs/@PGMAJORVERSION@/static/creating-cluster.html"
+fi
+
# See how we were called.
case "$option_mode" in
initdb)