Subject: Re: Postgresql Data Directories To: Patrick Welche <>
From: Curt Sampson <> List: tech-pkg Date: 02/19/2005 13:05:19
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Patrick Welche wrote:  > I haven't looked
at postgresql in pkgsrc.. Does it do an initdb > automatically?
(I would have thought that wouldn't be wise, but if > it did
your suggestion would make sense...)  Yes, it does, and it's
actually a good thing. It does the initdb only if it does not
find an exiting data directory. So there are three cases:
1. You didn't have a data directory. Now you do, and everything
is       2. You had one somewhere else. So just delete the new
one, move the      old one or tweak the start script, and
everything is happy.       3. You had an old one that it found,
and it didn't initdb. Now it's      using your old one (if
compatable), or postgresql refuses to start.      I'm not sure
what the user experience is in that case, since I'm      always
careful to move my old one out of the way.  The only downside of
the automatic initdb is