Re: [HACKERS] SIGSEGV in initdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] SIGSEGV in initdb
Date
Msg-id 199912180241.VAA29530@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to SIGSEGV in initdb  (Jeroen van Vianen <jeroen@design.nl>)
List pgsql-hackers
> While updating my local copy to current sources and running initdb I got a 
> SIGSEGV at bootstrap.c:465 while adding template1 to pg_database.
> 
> This is because RelationBuildDesc in relcache.c returns a NULL at line 766. 
> The comments above this line say:
> 
> find the tuple in pg_class corresponding to the given relation id
> if no such tuple exists, return NULL
> 
> (the relation is pg_database)
> 
> There seems to be some kind of error in the order in which the database is 
> bootstrapped and the system tables are created and filled.

Yes, initdb is totally messed up right now.  Peter, please...

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