Andrew Dunstan writes:
> I might. :-) Actually, it has struck me that the way we go about doing
> 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.
One of the constraints that would make this difficult is that during the
build process you cannot run the programs you just compiled, at least not
without opening a can of worms.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net