Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:21:50AM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> We also decided to turn off the init script execution entirely. The DBAs 
> were more comfortable with a manual database startup for a production 
> machine anyway (this is the way they typically handle Oracle databases 
> also). They get paged if the server ever goes down unplanned, and in 
> that event they like to check things out before bringing the db back up. 
> For planned outages, database startup is simply part of the plan.

I'd *really* like to have an official way to just disable the initdb
code entirely.
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