Re: initdb profiles

Dave Page wrote:

>perhaps your statement would be more
>accurate as:
>
>"Automatically running initdb behind the scenes at system startup is a
>proven dangerous practice"
>
>We've distributed hundreds of thousands of copies of pgInstaller which
>initdb's behind the scenes and never had any reported problems.
>
>
>  
>

And anyway you need to come up with a reasonable alternative for 
packagers, rather than just say "don't do this.". The only one I can 
think of is to run initdb as part of a package postinstall, although 
packagers and especially distro preparers might find that more than 
something of a nuisance.

cheers

andrew