I saw this here too. I ran the regression tests, and while doing it,
tried to create a database. No idea on a cause.
>
> [similar report submitted previously, but this is more complete]
>
> There is something that looks like shared memory corruption going on,
> which I first noticed by accident the other day, in the 1998-02-09
> snapshot. It's still there today, with the 1998-02-12 one, and looks
> like the following on my Sun SS2 under NetBSD/sparc 1.3 (I've created
> a simple test case here, for easy testing elsewhere):
>
> First, I run initdb, start a postmaster, create a user 'tih', stop the
> postmaster, restart the postmaster with '-d', thus:
>
> barsoom:postgres> postmaster -i -d
> FindBackend: searching PATH ...
> FindBackend: found "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres" using PATH
>
> Next, I create a database 'words', thus:
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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
