Re: heads up -- subtle change of behavior of new initdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: heads up -- subtle change of behavior of new initdb
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Msg-id 17410.1068789738@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to heads up -- subtle change of behavior of new initdb  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Responses Re: heads up -- subtle change of behavior of new initdb  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Re: heads up -- subtle change of behavior of new initdb  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> I just noticed tonight that the new initdb introduced a subtle change of 
> behavior. I use a shell script to automate the process of
> - rm old data directory
> - mkdir new data directory
> - initdb
> - load from pgdumpall
> Now, that second step is not needed, but as of today it produces an 
> installation that won't start due to improper permissions on data

That's a bug --- evidently the "fix permissions" path of control is
wrong; can you take a look?
        regards, tom lane


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