Re: initdb and "exit_nicely"...

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jeffery Collins <collins(at)onyx-technologies(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: initdb and "exit_nicely"...
Date: 2000-05-18 23:58:04
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0005190155430.349-100000@localhost.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> Something that would be a lot simpler is to refuse to run at all
> if the $PGDATA dir exists and is nonempty ;-)

Yes, why not? Initialize first, customize second. I thought initdb
provides a default pg_hba.conf file etc. so there's little to no reason
to do it the other way around.

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