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1. initdb crash after install

   Jim Buckley <buckley@engr.orst.edu> — 2000-04-25T02:53:37Z

   Greetings.
   
   I have read many of the questions concerning this issue. I
   too have installed PostgreSQL 6.5.3 faithfully following the
   instructions in the INSTALL file. The initdb crashes with
   the following error:
   
   ERROR:  pg_atoi: error in "template1": can't parse
   "template1"
   
   In my reading of the question archive, I see the solution
   seems to be to clean out all the old templates. We did a
   fresh install of Redhat 6.2 in a CS class, and it must
   automatically install postgres because postgres was already
   present on the system.
   
   My question is:  How does one find all the old libraries and
   clean them out?
   
   Thanks for your time,
   
   Jim Buckley,
   CS Student,
   Oregon State University.
   
   
   

2. Re: initdb crash after install

   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2000-04-25T03:42:46Z

   "Jim Buckley" <buckley@engr.orst.edu> writes:
   > The initdb crashes with the following error:
   
   > ERROR:  pg_atoi: error in "template1": can't parse
   > "template1"
   
   Hmm, seems pretty wacko.  I haven't seen that before, but I wonder
   whether you are using inconsistent bits of code, ie, a mismatch of
   files from your old install and files from the new one.  Check your
   path to make sure you are using the right version of initdb, and
   make sure that your PGLIB environment variable points to the
   newly installed lib directory.
   
   			regards, tom lane