Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 15:19 schrieb Tom Lane:
> I don't really want to remove the auto-initdb feature from the script,
> because it's important not to drive away newbies by making Postgres
> hard to start for the first time.  But I think we'd better think about
> ways to make it more bulletproof.

Why not run initdb in the %post and not in the init script at all?  That 
should be newbie-friendly as well.

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Peter Eisentraut
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