Re: [patch] pg_ctl init extension

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-11-14T08:41:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On tor, 2009-09-17 at 21:43 +0200, Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Attached patch extends pg_ctl command with init option. 
> 
> pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgres [-s] init
> 
> This should replace usage of initdb command which has problematic name
> as we already discussed several times. Initdb binary will be still
> there, but it can be renamed and move into execlib dir in the future.
> 
> Patch does not contains documentation changes. They will depends on
> decision which database initialization method will be preferred.

OK, let's see.  The patch is pretty straightforward, but does anyone
else actually want this?  Comments?