On 25.01.23 22:25, Tom Lane wrote:
So this invents an initdb switch "-c NAME=VALUE" just like the
one that the server itself has long had.
This seems useful.
The specified settings
are applied on the command line of the initial probe calls
(which happen before we've made any config files), and then they
are added to postgresql.auto.conf, which causes them to take
effect for the bootstrap backend runs as well as subsequent
postmaster starts.
I would have expected them to be edited into postgresql.conf. What are
the arguments for one or the other?
Btw., something that I have had in my notes for a while, but with this
it would now be officially exposed: Not all options can be safely set
during bootstrap. For example,
initdb -D data -c track_commit_timestamp=on
will fail an assertion. This might be an exception, or there might be
others.
