Re: more on initdb

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> initdb is kinda hokey, again probably for historic reasons, and that if 
> it were being redesigned from scratch today a better way would be to 
> have an cluster image built at compile time and just copied and tweaked 
> at runtime. Almost all the required info appears to be known at compile 
> time, AFAICS.

One thing we would rather not have to freeze at compile time is the
locale settings...
        regards, tom lane