Re: PG 7.1.3 & MacOS X (10.1) - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Chris Ruprecht <chrup999@yahoo.com> writes:
> I got the postmaster up just fine, too. Then, when I tried 'createdb
> msms' I got an error that the backend has disconnected - the
> postmaster was still up though.
> When I tried again, I got messages that the directory I was trying to
> create already existed. I tried this a few times to no avail.

A guess is that there's some sort of problem with the
    system("cp -r ....")
call that CREATE DATABASE uses to copy template1.  But I don't see why
that'd cause a backend crash.  You'll need to trace through the code to
learn more, in any case.  Look in src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c.

BTW, although PG 7.1 is reported to run okay under 10.0.4, we have
heard unconfirmed reports that it needs patches for 10.1.  You might
want to look around for those before proceeding.

            regards, tom lane