Re: Postgres 9 Installation problems

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Cc: r d <rd0002(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres 9 Installation problems
Date: 2010-09-25 14:41:20
Message-ID: 16685.1285425680@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> writes:
> On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 12:21 +0200, r d wrote:
>> --> I expect the installer to install the system service into the list
>> ofervices/daemons which are started at boot.

> Nope. RPMs have never ever added PostgreSQL to startup sequence by
> default.

Right. Years ago I put out a version of the Red Hat Postgres RPMs that
did do that, and was roundly chastized for it. An RPM is *not* supposed
to assume that merely being installed means that the user wants it to
start running a service. Otherwise, simply doing "install everything
from the DVD" would be a disaster.

regards, tom lane

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