Re: windows / initdb oddness - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: windows / initdb oddness
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C805A@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to windows / initdb oddness  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: windows / initdb oddness
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> This took me hours to find  ...
>
> On my Windows box, CVS HEAD gets an execution failure on "initdb foo"
> but succeeds happily with "initdb -D foo".
>
> This is not true for REL8_1_STABLE, nor is it true for all
> Windows machines/environments, apparently, otherwise we would
> be seeing failures from the buildfarm member snake, since the
> buildfarm script does "initdb data".
>
> My suspicion is that this is some side effect of the
> restricted-exec patch, but I don't have time to dig further right now.

Um, so what error msg do you get when it's failing?

//Magnus


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