Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:21:50AM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
We also decided to turn off the init script execution entirely. The DBAs
were more comfortable with a manual database startup for a production
machine anyway (this is the way they typically handle Oracle databases
also). They get paged if the server ever goes down unplanned, and in
that event they like to check things out before bringing the db back up.
For planned outages, database startup is simply part of the plan.
I'd *really* like to have an official way to just disable the initdb
code entirely.
This is trivial to do --- just add a /etc/<some_dir>/postgresql file
that contains a line like
AUTO_INITDB=0
to turn the auto-initdb'ing feature of the init script off. If the file
is not present or AUTO_INITDB is not defined to zero in that file, then
the code behaves as today. I don't recall what the configuration
directory is called in Redhat systems, but there is one in there (in
Debian it's /etc/default).
I don't see anything like this in my FC5 box's init script.
Oh, and the place you put stuff like that on RH/FC systems is /etc/sysconfig
cheers
andrew
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