Floating point exception in initdb - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vikram Patil
Subject Floating point exception in initdb
Date
Msg-id 71F491F5DA99604A80DE49424BF3D02B0F11D137@exchange8.actuate.com
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Responses Re: Floating point exception in initdb  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general

Hello Guys,

 

    I am getting an floating exception while running initdb from custom built postgresql . I am using suse linux for installing postgresql.

initDB.sh: line 14: 20285 Floating point exception$pgsql_home/bin/initdb -A password -U postgres --pwfile="pwFile" -E UTF8 -D postgresql/data /log/initDB.log

 

 --Warning. PostgreSQL database can't be initialized successfully, please manually create schema or migrate encyclopedia DB after initialized the

 

Same thing works on redhat machine without any issues.Following link says:

 

Work around gcc bug that causes "floating-point exception" instead of "division by zero" on some platforms (Tom)

 

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-1.html

 

I am not able to located description about this bug. Please also let me know where I can look at this bug description

 

Thanks & Regards,

Vikram

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