Re: more on initdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: more on initdb
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Msg-id 3F8197DA.3090901@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: more on initdb  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>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. Almost all the required info appears to be known at compile 
>>time, AFAICS.
>>    
>>
>
>One thing we would rather not have to freeze at compile time is the
>locale settings...
>
>  
>
That would have been one of the tweaks :-) Anyway, I'll let sleeping 
dogs lie.

cheers

andrew



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