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    In initdb, ensure stdout/stderr buffering behavior is what we expect. · 2dc4f011
    Tom Lane authored
    Since this program may print to either stdout or stderr, the relative
    ordering of its messages depends on the buffering behavior of those files.
    Force stdout to be line-buffered and stderr to be unbuffered, ensuring
    that the behavior will match standard Unix interactive behavior, even
    when stdout and stderr are rerouted to a file.
    
    Per complaint from Tomas Vondra.  The particular case he pointed out is
    new in HEAD, but issues of the same sort could arise in any branch with
    other error messages, so back-patch to all branches.
    
    I'm unsure whether we might not want to do this in other client programs
    as well.  For the moment, just fix initdb.
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