Re: [BUGS] 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>Rather I would ask why we changed the
>>description-loading routine in version 1.7 of initdb.c to use a copy
>>from file instead of what happens everywhere else where initdb loads the
>>file and feeds it to the postgres stdin?
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>That was to avoid a Windows-only newline problem. Don't complain too
>hard.
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Well, I've tried to fix every newline problem I've come across - I
wasn't aware of this one.

>You are in any case missing the point: -L is a useless switch and there
>is no reason to make it easy to use. (I don't think I have ever once
>had occasion to use it in all the years I've worked on Postgres, and I
>have certainly run initdb in orders-of-magnitude more contexts than any
>ordinary user would.) If I have to waste any more time on this
>discussion, I will propose solving the problem by removing the switch
>entirely.
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Sorry - I don't read -bugs so I haven't followed the discussion.

Removing it makes more sense to me, frankly.

cheers

andrew