| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: more on initdb |
| Date: | 2003-10-06 14:25:35 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0310061623390.3746-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Andrew Dunstan writes:
> I might. :-) Actually, it has struck me that the way we go about doing
> initdb is kinda hokey, again probably for historic reasons, and that if
> it were being redesigned from scratch today a better way would be to
> have an cluster image built at compile time and just copied and tweaked
> at runtime.
One of the constraints that would make this difficult is that during the
build process you cannot run the programs you just compiled, at least not
without opening a can of worms.
--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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