Re: initdb profiles

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: initdb profiles
Date: 2005-09-08 02:14:08
Message-ID: 2307.1126145648@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> What I would like to see is that initdb would end with saying that the
>> system is not really tuned and that I should run pg-some-program to
>> improve that.
>>
> Perhaps at the end of initdb it would say would you like
> to run the PostgreSQL configuration program?

You're both assuming that the output of initdb goes someplace other
than /dev/null ...

I do agree with trying to create a "configuration wizard" program,
but I think having initdb advertise it will be of only marginal use.

regards, tom lane

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