On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 1:35 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If I am following correctly, what you want is something
like the below from pg_ctl, correct?:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/app-pg-ctl.html
pg_ctl init[db] [-D datadir] [-s] [-o initdb-options]
...
> > checksums are good for data integrity, and can only be done at init
> > time, I wonder if it's worth adding a note about it to that
> > documentation page?
> >
>
Something like that "-o" option would be nice. But regardless of the solution, and given how simple & streamlined the install path/directions are, it seems to me to make sense to have some way of doing this that doesn't involve having to read through the setup script. That could be a simpler option, or it could just be a footnote on the install page, next to the initdb command, something like:
Optionally initialize the database and enable automatic start:
/usr/pgsql-11/bin/postgresql-11-setup initdb (*)
systemctl enable postgresql-11
systemctl start postgresql-11
(*) Some options for initializing the database can't be changed later (except by wiping out and reinitializing). You can specify options by running export PGSETUP_INITDB_OPTIONS="<your options>" before running this command. See <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-initdb.html> for options.
Cheers,
Ken
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