> > 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.
Sounds good. > > > Another perhaps-only-cosmetic issue is that now initdb prints quotes > > whether they are needed or not. > > I still think this is worth fixing, but it's a simple modification. > Will take care of it. > > Great! Seems like a good solution, I agree it looks better without quotes if they're not needed. > 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. > > Agreed, not a "bug" in that sense. Thanks Tom. > regards, tom lane >
