createdb feature request - Mailing list pgsql-general

Apache has a nice feature: it creates copies of all the default
configuration files, so that it's easy to diff and see what has
been modified in the config files.

Can this be included in createdb as well?

Thanks,
Mark

Here's a patch:


*** initdb.sh-orig    2004-02-11 11:25:49.000000000 -0800
--- initdb.sh    2004-02-11 11:28:35.000000000 -0800
***************
*** 608,615 ****
--- 608,620 ----
   fi
   cp "$PG_IDENT_SAMPLE" "$PGDATA"/pg_ident.conf          || exit_nicely

+ cp "$PGDATA"/pg_ident.conf "$PGDATA"/pg_ident.conf.default     || exit_nicely
+ cp "$PGDATA"/pg_hba.conf "$PGDATA"/pg_hba.conf.default         || exit_nicely
+ cp "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf.default || exit_nicely
   chmod 0600 "$PGDATA"/pg_hba.conf "$PGDATA"/pg_ident.conf \
       "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf
+ chmod 0600 "$PGDATA"/pg_hba.conf.default "$PGDATA"/pg_ident.conf.default \
+     "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf.default

   echo "ok"