Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts
Date: 2009-08-19 19:00:00
Message-ID: 20090819190000.GD4894@alvh.no-ip.org
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Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> ... for the simple reason that nobody is maintaining it. Wheeler just
> pointed out to me today that the OSX startup script hasn't been updated
> since 7.4 and contains misinformation and dangerous scripting.
>
> Other startup scripts there are equally dilapidated, and aren't used by
> the linux distros regardless.

If they are unmaintained, why not replace them with a pointer to some
script that is maintained?

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