Re: Some restructuring of the download section

Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> Uh, that part is just incorrect. Several sets of platform packages
>> certainly do initdb for you. And AFAIK every single one of them on
>> Linux at least do service setup for you.

> Hmm, clearly it's been a while since I did a PG installation on Debian
> (oddly!), as that does seem to leave the server up and running. I'm
> fairly certain it didn't in the past.
> RPMs on the other hand, do not.

FWIW, Red-Hat-based systems have a strong distro policy against starting
servers merely because the package got installed --- the theory is that
an "everything" install should not leave the user running a bunch of
servers he doesn't know about and maybe hasn't configured securely.

I'm a bit surprised to hear that Debian does it differently; although
it's possible that they distinguish manual from automatic install
scenarios. It's a little bit saner to do an auto service start if you
know that the user explicitly requested this specific package.

regards, tom lane