Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

    Andreas Karlsson wrote:

> The Debian packagers already use pg_createcluster for their script which
> wraps initdb, and while pg_initdb is a bit misleading (it creates a
> cluster rather than a database) it is not that bad.

But that renaming wouldn't achieve anything in relation to the stated goal,
since initdb is not in the $PATH in Debian/Ubuntu systems.
It's part of the version-specific binaries located in
/usr/lib/postgresql/$VERSION/bin, which are not meant to be called
directly, but by the pg_*cluster* scripts that you mention, or pg_wrapper.

Moreover, aside from package-specific issues, initdb can already be
invoked through "pg_ctl initdb" since 2010 and version 9.0, as
mentioned in:
 https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/app-initdb.html

This evolution was the result of discussions pretty much like
the present thread.
9 years later, who bothers to use or recommend the new form?
AFAICS nobody cares.

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