On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 01:32:45PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > I think it boils down to that today the output from initdb is entirely > geared towards people running initdb directly and starting their > server manually, and very few people outside the actual PostgreSQL > developers ever do that. But there are still a lot of people who run > initdb through their wrapper manually (for redhat you have to do that, > for debian you only have to do it if you're creating a secondary > cluster but that still a pretty common operation).
I think the big issue is that pg_upgrade not only output progress messages, but created files in the current directory, while initdb, by definition, is creating files in PGDATA. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
