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syntax errors in initdb for NT install of pgsql 7.0

From
"Jon Lustig"
Date:
Many others have posted on this but I have not seen an authoratative answer:

execution of Initdb on NT results in syntax errors - these seem to be
induced by whitespace only on some control command lines (for, case, ???).
I've been correcting them, one-by-one, by adding spaces on the ends of the
lines, for instance.  However, been a pretty much shot-in-the-dark approach
and I'd like to know if someone's gotten a decent answer on this one.

Jon Lustig
jlustig@etranslate.com

Re: syntax errors in initdb for NT install of pgsql 7.0

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Jon Lustig writes:

> Many others have posted on this but I have not seen an authoratative answer:
>
> execution of Initdb on NT results in syntax errors - these seem to be
> induced by whitespace only on some control command lines (for, case, ???).
> I've been correcting them, one-by-one, by adding spaces on the ends of the
> lines, for instance.  However, been a pretty much shot-in-the-dark approach
> and I'd like to know if someone's gotten a decent answer on this one.

Unless this is caused by the different end-of-line character convention,
you should show us the actual syntax errors so we can judge them.

--
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/

RE: syntax errors in initdb for NT install of pgsql 7.0

From
"Jon Lustig"
Date:
My apologies:

This is the sort of output I'm getting - I added -x as a command option and
threw in the echo line just to get some output.  I've been 'fixing' the
syntax errors line-by-line - it all seems to have to do with whitespace, but
I don't think it's a CRLF problem.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
+
: not found
+ echo Beginning initdb...
Beginning initdb... +
: not found
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb: 144: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting
")")
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------

thanks,
jon lustig

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:58 AM
>To: Jon Lustig
>Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] syntax errors in initdb for NT install of pgsql
>7.0
>
>
>Jon Lustig writes:
>
>> Many others have posted on this but I have not seen an
>authoratative answer:
>>
>> execution of Initdb on NT results in syntax errors - these seem to be
>> induced by whitespace only on some control command lines
>(for, case, ???).
>> I've been correcting them, one-by-one, by adding spaces on
>the ends of the
>> lines, for instance.  However, been a pretty much
>shot-in-the-dark approach
>> and I'd like to know if someone's gotten a decent answer on this one.
>
>Unless this is caused by the different end-of-line character
>convention,
>you should show us the actual syntax errors so we can judge them.
>
>--
>Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/
>