Re: more on initdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: more on initdb
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0310061623390.3746-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: more on initdb  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan writes:

> I might. :-) Actually, it has struck me that the way we go about doing
> 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.

One of the constraints that would make this difficult is that during the
build process you cannot run the programs you just compiled, at least not
without opening a can of worms.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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