Dave Page wrote:
perhaps your statement would be more
accurate as:
"Automatically running initdb behind the scenes at system startup is a
proven dangerous practice"
We've distributed hundreds of thousands of copies of pgInstaller which
initdb's behind the scenes and never had any reported problems.
And anyway you need to come up with a reasonable alternative for
packagers, rather than just say "don't do this.". The only one I can
think of is to run initdb as part of a package postinstall, although
packagers and especially distro preparers might find that more than
something of a nuisance.
cheers
andrew
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