On Saturday 06 July 2002 11:15 am, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:39:13PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> One other usability note: why can't postmaster perform the steps of > >> an initdb if -D points to an empty directory?
> > Rank newbies shouldn't be protected in this way, partly because if > > something goes wrong, _they won't know what to do_. > I agree completely with Andrew, even though an auto-initdb on an empty > directory presumably won't destroy any data. Good grief, I was just asking a question. :-) > What it *does* do is > effectively mask a DBA error. This is a satisfactory answer. In the context of the RPM distribution, if the initscript is used the DBA error probability is greatly reduced, thus the initscript can safely initdb. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
