Re: PGSQL on shared hosting

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Correct. AFAIK, you have to be root to set up any init-script action.
>
> You can easily build, install, and run PG in a personal directory
> (I do that all the time for testing purposes) but you couldn't really
> use it as a full-time server because it'd need to be manually restarted
> after any system reboot.

For the record, at least linux cron has an @reboot tag, defined as:

@reboot Run once, at startup.

Which should be what you want for an init script.

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