Any idea if this is fixed?
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Peter, comments?
>
> It doesn't destroy all databases anymore, although I can't make any
> statements about what it actually does do. I suppose it's still broken.
>
> > > Richard Poole <richard.poole@vi.net> writes:
> > > > It seems that initdb starts a single-user backend but gives it the "-x"
> > > > option, which makes it call BootStrapXLOG, which fails because it
> > > > expects to be called only on absolutely first-time system startup (?).
> > > > initdb sees the failure and removes everything under the data directory,
> > > > which is the wrong behaviour here.
> > >
> > > Sounds like a bug to me too. Peter E. has been hacking initdb to be
> > > more robust; Peter, have you fixed this already in current sources?
> > >
> > > regards, tom lane
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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>
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