Re: initdb / bootstrap design

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-02-16 13:24:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I remembered the reason why it's done that way: if we replaced those
>> values during genbki.pl, the contents of postgres.bki would become
>> architecture-dependent, belying its distribution as a "share" file.

> Hm. Architecturally I still would like to move it to be processed server
> side. I'd like to eventually get rid of single user mode (but keep bootstrap,
> at least for longer).
> Seems we could make NAMEDATALEN, FLOAT8PASSBYVAL, ALIGNOF_POINTER,
> FLOAT8PASSBYVAL stuff that bootparse knows about? And remove the need for
> POSTGRES, ENCODING, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE as discussed already?

Yeah, I have no objection to doing it that way.  It should be possible
to do those substitutions on a per-field basis, which'd be cleaner than
what initdb does now ...

            regards, tom lane