From: "Michael J. Maravillo" <mmj@philonline.com>

Also, I think the existence of pgsql/src/bin/initlocation/initlocation
isn't necessary as it's generated by Makefile from initlocation.sh.

src/bin/initlocation/initlocation

-#!/bin/sh
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#
-# initarea.sh--
-#     Create (initialize) a secondary Postgres database storage area.  
-# 
-#     A database storage area contains individual Postgres databases.
-#
-#     To create the database storage area, we create a root directory tree.
-#
-# Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
-#
-#
-# IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/initlocation/Attic/initlocation,v 1.4 1998/01/13 20:13:14 scrappy Exp $
-#
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-CMDNAME=`basename $0`
-
-while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]
-do
-	case "$1" in
-		--location=*) PGALTDATA="`echo $1 | sed 's/^--pgdata=//'`"; ;;
-		--username=*) POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME="`echo $1 | sed 's/^--username=//'`" ;;
-
-		--location) shift; PGALTDATA="$1"; ;;
-		--username) shift; POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME="$1"; ;;
-
-		-u) shift; POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME="$1"; ;;
-		-D) shift; PGALTDATA="$1"; ;;
-		-*) badparm=$1; usage=1; ;;
-		*) PGALTDATA="$1"; ;;
-	esac
-	shift
-done
-
-if [ -n "$badparm" ]; then
-	echo "$CMDNAME: Unrecognized parameter '$badparm'"
-fi
-
-if [ -n "$usage" ]; then
-	echo "Usage: $CMDNAME [-u SUPERUSER] DATADIR"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Make sure he told us where to build the database area
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if [ -z "$PGALTDATA" ]; then
-	echo "$CMDNAME: You must identify the target area, where the new data"
-	echo "for this database system can reside.  Do this with --location"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Figure out who the Postgres superuser for the new database system will be.
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if [ 1 -eq 0 ]; then
-if [ -z "$POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME" ]; then 
-	$POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=pg_id
-fi
-
-if [ -z "$POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME" ]; then 
-	echo "Can't tell what username to use.  You don't have the USER"
-	echo "environment variable set to your username and didn't specify the "
-	echo "--username option"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-POSTGRES_SUPERUID=`pg_id $POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME`
-
-if [ $POSTGRES_SUPERUID = NOUSER ]; then
-	echo "Valid username not given.  You must specify the username for "
-	echo "the Postgres superuser for the database system you are "
-	echo "initializing, either with the --username option or by default "
-	echo "to the USER environment variable."
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ $POSTGRES_SUPERUID -ne `pg_id` -a `pg_id` -ne 0 ]; then 
-	echo "Only the unix superuser may initialize a database with a different"
-	echo "Postgres superuser.  (You must be able to create files that belong"
-	echo "to the specified unix user)."
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-echo "We are initializing the database area with username" \
-	"$POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME (uid=$POSTGRES_SUPERUID)."   
-echo "This user will own all the files and must also own the server process."
-echo
-fi
-
-# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Create the data directory if necessary
-# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-# umask must disallow access to group, other for files and dirs
-umask 077
-
-if [ ! -d $PGALTDATA ]; then
-	echo "Creating Postgres database system directory $PGALTDATA"
-	echo
-	mkdir $PGALTDATA
-	if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1; fi
-fi
-if [ ! -d $PGALTDATA/base ]; then
-	echo "Creating Postgres database system directory $PGALTDATA/base"
-	echo
-	mkdir $PGALTDATA/base
-	if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1; fi
-fi
-
-exit