Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:21:50AM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
>>     
>>> We also decided to turn off the init script execution entirely. The DBAs 
>>> were more comfortable with a manual database startup for a production 
>>> machine anyway (this is the way they typically handle Oracle databases 
>>> also). They get paged if the server ever goes down unplanned, and in 
>>> that event they like to check things out before bringing the db back up. 
>>> For planned outages, database startup is simply part of the plan.
>>>       
>> I'd *really* like to have an official way to just disable the initdb
>> code entirely.
>>     
>
> This is trivial to do --- just add a /etc/<some_dir>/postgresql file
> that contains a line like
>
> AUTO_INITDB=0
>
> to turn the auto-initdb'ing feature of the init script off.  If the file
> is not present or AUTO_INITDB is not defined to zero in that file, then
> the code behaves as today.  I don't recall what the configuration
> directory is called in Redhat systems, but there is one in there (in
> Debian it's /etc/default).  
>
>   

I don't see anything like this in my FC5 box's init script.

Oh, and the place you put stuff like that on RH/FC systems is /etc/sysconfig

cheers

andrew