Okay, it looks like I must have done something weird during the first
build of 7.1 that hosed the global.bki file. I just untarred it again and
it built, installed, and initdb'd just fine.
Sorry for the noise.
-M@
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Matthew Hixson writes:
>
> > Aha. Apparently my global.bki in my 7.1 archive has a bunch of binary
> > crap at the end of the file. global.bki in 7.1rc4 is 44 lines long, but
> > the one from 7.1 is 168 lines long (according to wc) and contains
> > thousands of repetitions of ^@.
> > I think I got this archive from postgresql.readysetnet.org. I'll
> > download it again and see if that file is still that way. If so they may
> > have a corrupted archive.
>
> The global.bki file is not in the archive, it is created by
> src/backend/catalog/genbki.sh. The C preprocessor, sed, and awk are major
> links in that chain. If any source file is corrupted it would be one of
> the header files under src/include/catalog.
>
> Btw., there are MD5 sums of the tarballs available.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
>
