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Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>, pgsqlrpms-hackers@pgfoundry.org
Date: 2006-08-25T15:16:23Z
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Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 16:54 schrieb Tom Lane:
> No, it doesn't.  (The Red Hat RPMs in fact did that ... for about
> a week ... until I was told in no uncertain terms that we don't
> start unnecessary daemons by default.)

Well, there seem to be philosophical differences between the various operating 
systems -- "We won't install unnecessary packages." vs. "We won't start 
unnecessary daemons in unnecessarily installed packages." -- in which case 
your solution doesn't sound all that bad.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/