Re: initdb / bootstrap design

Hi,

On February 19, 2022 4:39:38 PM PST, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> A quick way to prototype the moving the handlign to the backend would be to
>> just call postgres with input redirection from postgres.bki...
>
>Hmm. I was thinking of inventing an include-file command in the
>BKI language, and making initdb just send an INCLUDE command.
>That's arguably overkill for the immediate need, but it looks like it
>requires just a few lines of code (flex provides pretty much all of the
>infrastructure already), and maybe we'd find another use for it later.
>
>However, redirection does sound like a very easy answer ...

Medium term I'd rather do neither, because I'd like to avoid the restart in-between bootstrap and the various sql files. But short term redirection redirection might be good enough - it does mostly work on windows I think ...

Andres
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