Re: initdb profiles

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> The idea was in fact to allow the user to provide additional
> information to allow initdb to make better guesses than it currently
> does.

There's certainly going to be opposition to making initdb an interactive 
tool.

The other problem is that no one has ever managed to show that it is 
possible to derive reasonable settings from a finite set of questions 
presented to the user, plus perhaps from a reasonably portable system 
analysis.  If you can do that, that would be a cool tool in its own 
right.  And then you could call that from initdb or not depending on 
taste.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/