Tom,
> Well, that does deserve investigation. But I've been initdb'ing
> frequently and not noticed any problems. What configure switches
> did you use exactly? Did you try to move the installation tree
> after configure?
Here's the issue: if you start initdb from a directory other than PGBASE, you
can run into trouble:
postgres@mole:/usr/local/pg80b/bin> ./initdb -D ../data
initdb: file "/usr/local/pg80b/bin/share/postgresql/postgres.bki" does not
exist
This means you have a corrupted installation or identified
the wrong directory with the invocation option -L.
postgres@mole:/usr/local/pg80b/bin>
I don't recall having this issue with 7.4.
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco