Re: initdb profiles

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> What I would like to see is that initdb would end with saying that the 
>> system is not really tuned and that I should run pg-some-program to 
>> improve that.
>> 
> Perhaps at the end of initdb it would say would you like
> to run the PostgreSQL configuration program?

You're both assuming that the output of initdb goes someplace other
than /dev/null ...

I do agree with trying to create a "configuration wizard" program,
but I think having initdb advertise it will be of only marginal use.
        regards, tom lane