Re: creating a cluster

David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> writes:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:16:35PM -0400, Alexander Cohen wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any new ways to create clusters without using initdb 
>>> or bootstrap mode? I need to be able to create one without those 2 
>>> things. Any ideas?
>>
>> initdb'ing somewhere else and copying the resulting directory?

> Btw, I've been doing this for a binary distribution on Windows (Cygwin) 
> and Linux.

Yeah, that would work fine as long as the "somewhere else" is using an
identical Postgres build.  I found out in off-list conversation that
Alexander wants to build a hacked-up version of Postgres with all
bootstrap code removed (and, I suppose, a bunch of other changes too).
Seems to me that file-level compatibility would be difficult to
guarantee under such circumstances, so I told him he ought to put back
the bootstrap support ... it's not like it's large ...
        regards, tom lane