I wrote: > A bigger issue here is that it seems fundamentally wrong for initdb to be > including libpq, because it surely is never meant to be communicating > with a running postmaster. Not sure what to do about that. We could > consider moving pqexpbuffer out of libpq into fe_utils, but I wonder > whether that would break any third-party code. We've never advertised > pqexpbuffer.h as a supported API of libpq, but it's probably handy enough > that people use it anyway. I suppose we could duplicate it in fe_utils > and libpq, though that's a tad ugly. Thoughts?
I looked into this and soon found that fe_utils/string_utils.o has dependencies on libpq that are much wider than just pqexpbuffer :-(. It might be a project to think about sorting that out sometime, but it looks like it would be an awful lot of work just to avoid having initdb depend on libpq.so. So I now think this objection is impractical. I'll just annotate the makefile entry to say that initdb itself doesn't use libpq. > Another perhaps-only-cosmetic issue is that now initdb prints quotes > whether they are needed or not. I find this output pretty ugly: > ... > That's not really the fault of this patch perhaps. Maybe we could adjust > appendShellString so it doesn't add quotes if they are clearly > unnecessary. I still think this is worth fixing, but it's a simple modification. Will take care of it. This item is listed in the commitfest as a bug fix, but given the lack of previous complaints, and the fact that the printed command isn't really meant to be blindly copied-and-pasted anyway (you're at least meant to replace "logfile" with something), I do not think it needs back-patching. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers