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    Update our documentation concerning where to create data directories. · 8c72a7fa
    Tom Lane authored
    Although initdb has long discouraged use of a filesystem mount-point
    directory as a PG data directory, this point was covered nowhere in the
    user-facing documentation.  Also, with the popularity of pg_upgrade,
    we really need to recommend that the PG user own not only the data
    directory but its parent directory too.  (Without a writable parent
    directory, operations such as "mv data data.old" fail immediately.
    pg_upgrade itself doesn't do that, but wrapper scripts for it often do.)
    
    Hence, adjust the "Creating a Database Cluster" section to address
    these points.  I also took the liberty of wordsmithing the discussion
    of NFS a bit.
    
    These considerations aren't by any means new, so back-patch to all
    supported branches.
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