Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts
Date
Msg-id 20090819190000.GD4894@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> ... for the simple reason that nobody is maintaining it.  Wheeler just
> pointed out to me today that the OSX startup script hasn't been updated
> since 7.4 and contains misinformation and dangerous scripting.
> 
> Other startup scripts there are equally dilapidated, and aren't used by
> the linux distros regardless.

If they are unmaintained, why not replace them with a pointer to some
script that is maintained?

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