Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: pgsqlrpms-hackers(at)pgfoundry(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script
Date: 2006-08-26 19:48:43
Message-ID: 20060826194843.GG73562@pervasive.com
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:21:50AM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> We also decided to turn off the init script execution entirely. The DBAs
> were more comfortable with a manual database startup for a production
> machine anyway (this is the way they typically handle Oracle databases
> also). They get paged if the server ever goes down unplanned, and in
> that event they like to check things out before bringing the db back up.
> For planned outages, database startup is simply part of the plan.

I'd *really* like to have an official way to just disable the initdb
code entirely.
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