Tom Lane writes:
> Ugh. I think that the former version of the script didn't use
> conditional expressions (a ? b : c). Perhaps old versions of
> awk don't have those? If so we can probably work around it...
While you're at it, you should use AC_PROG_AWK to potentially find the
most modern and fastest awk on the system. Also, it seems that script has
really little to no checking of exit statuses. A segfault during initdb is
a really obscure place to find out about awk syntax errors.
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