Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What it *does* do is effectively mask a DBA error.
> This is a satisfactory answer. In the context of the RPM distribution, if the
> initscript is used the DBA error probability is greatly reduced, thus the
> initscript can safely initdb.
Fair enough
J.R.,
Nice first draft and a good read. Was going to comment
in-line but thought this method would be easier to follow.
The comments/suggestions below assume that PIT recovery is
being performed at the cluster level with a data backup
image created by a tar-like utility.
As noted, one of the
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:39:13PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >> One other usability note: why can't postmaster perform the steps of
> >> an initdb if -D points to an empty directory?
>
> > Rank newbies shouldn'
On Saturday 06 July 2002 11:15 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:39:13PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >> One other usability note: why can't postmaster perform the steps of
> >> an initdb if -D points to an empty directory?
> > Rank new
> Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I am worried about that too. But if we stick a C-level API, how can we
> > define the argument data type suitable for C string? I don't see such
> > data types. Maybe you are suggesting that we should not use CREATE
> > FUNCTION?
>
> Well, you'd have
> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > OK, I've been looking at Hiroshi's implementation. It's basically
> > semantically equivalent to mine from what I can see so far. The only
> > difference really
Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:39:13PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> One other usability note: why can't postmaster perform the steps of
>> an initdb if -D points to an empty directory?
> Rank newbies shouldn't be protected in this way, partly because if
>
Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am worried about that too. But if we stick a C-level API, how can we
> define the argument data type suitable for C string? I don't see such
> data types. Maybe you are suggesting that we should not use CREATE
> FUNCTION?
Well, you'd have to use the sa
On July 5, 2002 10:27 am, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Actually, the "big" change is such that will, at least as far as I'm
> > > understanding it, break pretty much every front-end applicaiton ...
> >
> > On
