Re: Minor improvement for creating directory structure

On 2019-May-09, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> On Wed, May  8, 2019 at 07:40:16AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> > 
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/install-short.html
> > Description:
> > 
> > 1)
> > $ mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
> > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/pgsql/data’: No such file or
> > directory
> 
> My docs say:
> 
>        -p, --parents
>               no error if existing, make parent directories as needed
> 
> While I can see the value of "make parent directories as needed", having
> it do "no error if existing" could be bad.

Why?  initdb is going to fail anyway if it contains anything.

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