Re: Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>, pgsqlrpms-hackers@pgfoundry.org
Date: 2006-08-25T14:54:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 16:20 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> It eats rather a lot of disk space for a package that might just be
>> getting loaded as part of a system install, with no likelihood of
>> actually being used.

> Wouldn't the system install start the init script at the end of the 
> installation process anyway?

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.)

			regards, tom lane