Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsqlrpms-hackers(at)pgfoundry(dot)org
Subject: Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script
Date: 2006-08-25 13:35:38
Message-ID: 200608251535.39872.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 15:19 schrieb Tom Lane:
> I don't really want to remove the auto-initdb feature from the script,
> because it's important not to drive away newbies by making Postgres
> hard to start for the first time. But I think we'd better think about
> ways to make it more bulletproof.

Why not run initdb in the %post and not in the init script at all? That
should be newbie-friendly as well.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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