Re: Debugging initdb breakage - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Debugging initdb breakage
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Msg-id 20101012203544.GA16383@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Debugging initdb breakage  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
Responses Re: Debugging initdb breakage
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:05:57PM +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > As a note, I've had luck finding bootstrap-time bugs by manually
> > feeding the bootstrapping commands into bootstrap mode, with a
> > leftover dir from "initdb --noclean".  This has helped a few times
> > that there has been no PANIC but just a FATAL or ERROR, for
> > example.  It's easy to attach GDB to such a backend.
> 
> Nice tip, thanks!

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Cheers,
David.
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