Re: [HACKERS] [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

2006-08-26 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:21:50AM -0700, Joe Conway wrote: > > We also decided to turn off the init script execution entirely. The DBAs > > were more comfortable with a manual database startup for a production > > machine anyway (this is the way they typically handle Oracle

Re: [HACKERS] [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

2006-08-26 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:21:50AM -0700, Joe Conway wrote: > We also decided to turn off the init script execution entirely. The DBAs > were more comfortable with a manual database startup for a production > machine anyway (this is the way they typically handle Oracle databases > also). They ge

Re: [HACKERS] [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init script

2006-08-25 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: We've seen more than one report of corruption of PG databases that seemed to be due to the willingness of the RPM init script to run initdb if it thinks the data directory isn't there. This is pretty darn risky on an NFS volume, for instance, which might be offline at the instant