"Forensic Labs." <wgu@forensic-labs.co.uk> writes:
> initializing pg_shadow... [1] Bus error (core dumped)
> Can anyone help me out with this one?
Can you provide a stack trace from that core dump?
(You'll need to run initdb with --noclean option so that it doesn't wipe
the data directory, else you lose the core file along with the rest of
the data directory.)
What compiler did you use?
regards, tom lane