On Saturday 06 July 2002 11:15 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info> writes:
> > 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?
> > Rank newbies shouldn't be protected in this way, partly because if
> > something goes wrong, _they won't know what to do_.
> I agree completely with Andrew, even though an auto-initdb on an empty
> directory presumably won't destroy any data.
Good grief, I was just asking a question. :-)
> What it *does* do is
> effectively mask a DBA error.
This is a satisfactory answer. In the context of the RPM distribution, if the
initscript is used the DBA error probability is greatly reduced, thus the
initscript can safely initdb.
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Lamar Owen
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