Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rather I would ask why we changed the description-loading routine in version 1.7 of initdb.c to use a copy from file instead of what happens everywhere else where initdb loads the file and feeds it to the postgres stdin?
That was to avoid a Windows-only newline problem. Don't complain too
hard.
Well, I've tried to fix every newline problem I've come across - I wasn't aware of this one.
You are in any case missing the point: -L is a useless switch and there is no reason to make it easy to use. (I don't think I have ever once had occasion to use it in all the years I've worked on Postgres, and I have certainly run initdb in orders-of-magnitude more contexts than any ordinary user would.) If I have to waste any more time on this discussion, I will propose solving the problem by removing the switch entirely.
Sorry - I don't read -bugs so I haven't followed the discussion.
Removing it makes more sense to me, frankly.
cheers
andrew
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