Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script
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Msg-id 200608251716.24939.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 16:54 schrieb Tom Lane:
> No, it doesn't.  (The Red Hat RPMs in fact did that ... for about
> a week ... until I was told in no uncertain terms that we don't
> start unnecessary daemons by default.)

Well, there seem to be philosophical differences between the various operating 
systems -- "We won't install unnecessary packages." vs. "We won't start 
unnecessary daemons in unnecessarily installed packages." -- in which case 
your solution doesn't sound all that bad.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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