"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> Can anyone suggest what may be happening here?
> The original bug report was that initdb stuck with postgres consuming
> most of the CPU cycles.
Now that I see the original bug report, I see that you omitted a rather
critical piece of information, namely that he's using an Alpha machine.
Does he have Ryan Kirkpatrick's Alpha patches installed? If not, I'd
not really expect it to work at all...
regards, tom lane
