Andrew Dunstan wrote: > And anyway you need to come up with a reasonable alternative for > packagers, rather than just say "don't do this.". The only one I can > think of is to run initdb as part of a package postinstall, although > packagers and especially distro preparers might find that more than > something of a nuisance.
I think running initdb in the package postinstall is the best place, and many packages already do that. I gather from this discussion that some packages run initdb from the init script, and that the concerns that have been expressed are especially about that setup, and I certainly agree that this is not the optimal arrangement. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
