Re: initdb - creating clusters

2020-07-11 Thread David G. Johnston
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 2:37 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Another approach would be to put something along this line at the heads > of each of the relevant sections, which'd be 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.5, > and 18.6 by my count. That seems very repetitive; but it would have > the advantage that people

Re: initdb - creating clusters

2020-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel Gustafsson writes: >> On 11 Jul 2020, at 23:36, Tom Lane wrote: >> + For example, there may be special scripts for creating a database >> + cluster. There almost certainly will be a mechanism for starting >> + the server, > Aren't we really talking about "running the server as a

Re: initdb - creating clusters

2020-07-11 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 11 Jul 2020, at 23:36, Tom Lane wrote: > + For example, there may be special scripts for creating a database > + cluster. There almost certainly will be a mechanism for starting > + the server, Aren't we really talking about "running the server as a service" and not just starting it?

Re: initdb - creating clusters

2020-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
Laurenz Albe writes: > On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 15:25 +, PG Doc comments form wrote: >> I would suggest that you include a paragraph stating that various operating >> systems use other commands to avoid version conflict and suggest the reader >> search for ' pg_ctl'. I can understand why you