Re: Debugging initdb breakage - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: Debugging initdb breakage
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Msg-id m24ocr2n2y.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr
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In response to Re: Debugging initdb breakage  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> As a note, I've had luck finding bootstrap-time bugs by manually feeding
> the bootstrapping commands into bootstrap mode, with a leftover dir from
> "initdb --noclean".  This has helped a few times that there has been no
> PANIC but just a FATAL or ERROR, for example.  It's easy to attach GDB
> to such a backend.

Nice tip, thanks!
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Dimitri Fontaine
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