Re: [HACKERS] initdb -t destroys all databases

2001-01-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess we won't need two separate files global.bki and template1.bki anymore. That would simplify some things, but maybe it's still a stilistic thing. It's probably not absolutely necessary to have two, but why change it? One less *bki file

Re: [HACKERS] initdb -t destroys all databases

2001-01-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: Accordingly, I suggest that initdb -t should be flushed entirely. I guess we won't need two separate files global.bki and template1.bki anymore. That would simplify some things, but maybe it's still a stilistic thing. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] initdb -t destroys all databases

2001-01-23 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess we won't need two separate files global.bki and template1.bki anymore. That would simplify some things, but maybe it's still a stilistic thing. It's probably not absolutely necessary to have two, but why change it?

Re: [HACKERS] initdb -t destroys all databases

2001-01-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: It occurs to me that the only likely use for initdb -t is now served by DROP DATABASE template1; CREATE DATABASE template1 WITH TEMPLATE = template0; ie, we have a *real* way to reconstruct a virgin template1 rather than an initdb kluge. I agree. Accordingly,

Re: [HACKERS] initdb -t destroys all databases

2001-01-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Any idea if this is fixed? Bruce Momjian writes: Peter, comments? It doesn't destroy all databases anymore, although I can't make any statements about what it actually does do. I suppose it's still broken. Richard Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that initdb starts a

Re: [HACKERS] initdb -t destroys all databases

2000-10-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: Peter, comments? It doesn't destroy all databases anymore, although I can't make any statements about what it actually does do. I suppose it's still broken. Richard Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that initdb starts a single-user backend but gives it the

Re: [HACKERS] initdb -t destroys all databases

2000-10-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter, comments? Richard Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that initdb starts a single-user backend but gives it the "-x" option, which makes it call BootStrapXLOG, which fails because it expects to be called only on absolutely first-time system startup (?). initdb sees the