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