Re: Patch for 9.1: initdb -C option

(2010/07/23 13:00), Robert Haas wrote:
> 2010/7/22 KaiGai Kohei<kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>:
>> Anyway, it is an obvious feature, and seems to me works fine.
>
> So this makes it sound like you like the feature.
>
>> However, it is not clear for me how do we make progress this feature.
>> If we support a command to include other configuration, it also needs
>> to patch on the postgresql backend, not only initdb.
>
> I don't know what this means.
>
>> In my personal opinion, as long as you don't need any special configuration
>> under the single user mode or bootstraping mode launched by initdb,
>> we can modify it using shell script or others later.
>
> But here it sounds like you're saying we don't need the feature
> because may as well just edit postgresql.conf by hand.
>
> So I'm confused.
>
Sorry for the confusion.

What I wanted to say is the patch itself is fine but we need to make consensus
before the detailed code reviewing.

Thanks,
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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>