Re: Initdb failure with PG 7.1.3 on RH 7.1... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Initdb failure with PG 7.1.3 on RH 7.1...
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Msg-id 8555.1007142248@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Initdb failure with PG 7.1.3 on RH 7.1...  (Paul Stavrides <pstav123@adelie.net>)
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Paul Stavrides <pstav123@adelie.net> writes:
> No,  looks like this is the cause.  My $prefix/share/global.bki is only
> 17 bytes long and has only the header line:

>     # PostgreSQL 7.1

Ah-hah.  We've seen some prior reports of portability problems in the
sed commands used by src/backend/catalog/genbki.sh, which is the script
that builds those files.  But the last fix in that area was pre-7.1
release.  Maybe you have a broken sed or awk installed?

            regards, tom lane

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