Re: more on initdb

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>initdb is kinda hokey, again probably for historic reasons, and that if
>>it were being redesigned from scratch today a better way would be to
>>have an cluster image built at compile time and just copied and tweaked
>>at runtime. Almost all the required info appears to be known at compile
>>time, AFAICS.
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>One thing we would rather not have to freeze at compile time is the
>locale settings...
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That would have been one of the tweaks :-) Anyway, I'll let sleeping
dogs lie.

cheers

andrew