On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Alvaro Herrera
>>> Robert, are you working on this?
>
>> I wasn't, but I can, if we agree on it.
>
> I think we need to do *something* (and accordingly have added this to
> the 9.3 open items page so we don't forget about it). Whether Robert's
> idea is the best one probably depends in part on how clean the patch
> turns out to be.
The attached patch attempts to implement this. I discovered that, in
fact, we have a number of places in our initdb-time scripts that rely
on the current behavior, but they weren't hard to fix; and in fact I
think the extra verbosity is probably not a bad thing here.
See what you think.
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Robert Haas
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