Re: BUG #17757: Not honoring huge_pages setting during initdb causes DB crash in Kubernetes

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Sisson, David" <David.Sisson@dell.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, "pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-01-24T00:37:37Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Hi,

On 2023-01-23 17:51:46 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > That said, I'm for allowing to specify options to initdb.
> 
> Yeah, I think that has enough other potential applications to be worth
> doing.  Here's a quick draft patch (sans user-facing docs as yet).
> It injects any given values into postgresql.auto.conf, not
> postgresql.conf proper.  I did that mainly because the latter looked
> beyond the abilities of the primitive string-munging code we have in
> there, but I think it can be argued to be a reasonable choice anyway.

Oh, I had thought we'd just pass them on with -c to the processes that initdb
starts. But perhaps just persisting them isn't a bad idea...

- Andres