Re: 7.1 initdb error - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.1 initdb error
Date
Msg-id 4081.979842054@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to 7.1 initdb error  ("mike" <matrix@quadrent.net>)
List pgsql-admin
"mike" <matrix@quadrent.net> writes:
> things proced as usual then I get an error while initdb is creatting templa=
> te1.
>  ERROR: Error: unknowen type 'ame'=20

This was just discovered a day or two ago --- there's been an extraneous
backslash in genbki.sh since, oh, about 1996.  Curious how a bug can go
unnoticed for years and then two people pop up with it in a week.

You can change "/\name/" to "/name/" in src/backend/catalog/genbki.sh,
then re-make install in that directory; or just use the latest nightly
snapshot.

            regards, tom lane

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