Re: BUG #4344: initdb -L timezone directory - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: BUG #4344: initdb -L timezone directory
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Msg-id 200808111336.22631.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: BUG #4344: initdb -L timezone directory  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Am Thursday, 7. August 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> I rather wonder whether -L has any reason to live at all.  initdb's
> default is to locate PGSHAREDIR relative to where it finds the backend
> executable, which is consistent with what the backend itself is going
> to do.  Is there any scenario where specifying a different location
> wouldn't be broken?

I think the -L option only exists for legacy reasons.

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