Greg Sabino Mullane said:
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> Having to recompile initdb.c is probably not an option.
Which version of PostreSQL are you installing on this production machine?
initdb is not a C program in any released version - in 7.4.2 it is a shell
script which you could trivially modify. Of course, in the next release it
will be a C program.
cheers
andrew