From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Cc: Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: initdb recommendations
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2019 11:08:39 -0700
Message-ID: <20190406180839.GA1921989@rfd.leadboat.com> (raw)
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On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 11:35:44AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 10:58 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > On 2019-04-05 18:11, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> > > (There could be an additional discussion about whether or not we want to
> > > change the default behavior for initdb, but I would suggest that a safe
> > > starting point would be to ensure we call this out)
> >
> > I think we should just change the defaults. There is a risk of warning
> > fatigue. initdb does warn about this, so anyone who cared could have
> > gotten the information.
> >
>
> I've been suggesting that for years, so definite strong +1 for doing that.
+1
> If it's something that annoys backend developers who initdb very often, I
> suggest we add an environment variable to override it. But I'm not sure
> that's really necessary -- creating a shell alias or similar is easy to do,
> and most have probably already done so for other reasons.
I, for one, do most initdb runs via a script and wouldn't use such an
environment variable.
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