On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:39:13PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> One other usability note: why can't postmaster perform the steps of
> an initdb if -D points to an empty directory? It's not that much
> code, is it? (I know that one extra step isn't backbreaking, but
> I'm looking at this from a rank newbie's point of view -- or at
> least I'm trying to look at it in that way, as it's been a while
> since I was a rank newbie at PostgreSQL) Oh well, just a random
> thought.
Rank newbies shouldn't be protected in this way, partly because if
something goes wrong, _they won't know what to do_. Please, please,
don't be putting automagic, database destroying functions like that
into the postmaster. It's a sure way to cause a disaster at aome
point.
A
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