Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsqlrpms-hackers(at)pgfoundry(dot)org
Subject: Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script
Date: 2006-08-25 14:54:57
Message-ID: 24405.1156517697@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 16:20 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> It eats rather a lot of disk space for a package that might just be
>> getting loaded as part of a system install, with no likelihood of
>> actually being used.

> Wouldn't the system install start the init script at the end of the
> installation process anyway?

No, it doesn't. (The Red Hat RPMs in fact did that ... for about
a week ... until I was told in no uncertain terms that we don't
start unnecessary daemons by default.)

regards, tom lane

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