Re: creating a cluster

On Jun 23, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> writes:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:16:35PM -0400, Alexander Cohen wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have any new ways to create clusters without using 
>>>> initdb
>>>> or bootstrap mode? I need to be able to create one without those 2
>>>> things. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> initdb'ing somewhere else and copying the resulting directory?
>
>> Btw, I've been doing this for a binary distribution on Windows 
>> (Cygwin)
>> and Linux.
>
> Yeah, that would work fine as long as the "somewhere else" is using an
> identical Postgres build.  I found out in off-list conversation that
> Alexander wants to build a hacked-up version of Postgres with all
> bootstrap code removed (and, I suppose, a bunch of other changes too).
> Seems to me that file-level compatibility would be difficult to
> guarantee under such circumstances, so I told him he ought to put back
> the bootstrap support ... it's not like it's large ...

For the meantime, i ended up compiling a normal version of postgres and 
using that with initdb, then switching it over to my "hacked-up" 
version. It works, and thats all i need for now!

Alex