On 2026-05-07 Th 8:44 AM, Isaac Morland wrote:
On Thu, 7 May 2026 at 08:40, David G. Johnston
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thursday, May 7, 2026, Dutch Glory <[email protected]> wrote:
proposal:
Postgresql 18 Linux (all flavors) - with installation, create
new instance/main database:
sudo -u postgres /usr/pgsql-18/bin/pg_ctl -D
/var/lib/pgsql/18/data/ initdb
No, make/ninja install should not create a database. That is
outside its appropriate responsibilities. Installing from source
stops once the binaries are installed. Using the installed
product is up to the user.
Also there are lots of reasons to install Postgres without creating an
instance. This is actually one of the things I don't like about the
Ubuntu installer, which defaults to creating an instance (although
this behaviour can be suppressed by creating a config file with an
appropriate directive first).
+1 It's annoyed me many times.
cheers
andrew
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