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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: initdb fails on ia64 SMP system
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Msg-id 5791.1029854939@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to initdb fails on ia64 SMP system  (Ian Grant <Ian.Grant@cl.cam.ac.uk>)
Responses Re: initdb fails on ia64 SMP system  (Ian Grant <Ian.Grant@cl.cam.ac.uk>)
Re: initdb fails on ia64 SMP system  (Ian Grant <Ian.Grant@cl.cam.ac.uk>)
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Ian Grant <Ian.Grant@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>   Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)         : ia64, 4 way SMP
>   Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)  : Linux 2.4.3 SMP kernel

Does anything else work for you on that box?  I seem to recall that
kernels before about 2.4.9 had serious SMP bugs.

> Running the same command again causes it to fail somewhere different, e.g.:

In that case I don't think it's our bug.  initdb is quite deterministic,
at least when running on a deterministic platform ;-)

            regards, tom lane

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